Questions tagged [purge]
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logrotate configuration and execution
I'm trying to configure logrotate to rotate and delete log files every day at midnight, but have never used it before. So: (a) I want to confirm that my configuration is correct, and (b) I need help getting on automating its daily execution at…
pnongrata
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How can I complete remove gnome and all of its subprograms?
I have Kubuntu 12.04.
And I had installed gnome with sudo apt-get install gnome.
How can I complete remove this?
Looks like just put a sudo apt-get purge gnome will not solve the case. Because will remove just all gnome* packages and subprograms…
GarouDan
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Robocopy /purge only without archive attribute
i am working on a robocopy command to sync different folders.
But for some reasons i just want to delete with purge the files without an archive attribute. Is this possible?
/Purge /E /NOCOPY /Log:%Logfile02% /TS /X /V /TEE /w:3 /r:10 /XA:A
So the…
mirko
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Ways to purge data on restart, shutdown, and logoff
What ways can do such thing as reverting(quickly) a pc's state back to an image on logoff, shutdown and restart.
Those pc's(runs windows 7) that I talked about are connected to a server. Students must have an account to log in. Once they logoff,…
NYCity
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Simple Merge / Purge with Excel
I have four Excel files that contain email addresses. I need to find out how many unique addresses are in the first three, but not in the fourth.
What's the easiest way to do that?
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downside / dangers of using "purge" command to free up ram in terminal - mac
in osx terminal if you can run the command "purge" this clears up all the inactive ram leaving you in a similar state as just after rebooting.
Its such an easy command to run why dosnt it run automaticly after you shut a large application. Or why…
sam
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How can I sort a document according to a substring in each line on Win7?
How can I sort a text according to hashtag on Windows-7?
I have a long text (.txt format) which looks something like this:
Blah blah #Test
123123 #Really
Blah bluh #Really
klfdmngl #Test
I would like to conveniently, quickly and automatically be…
Joey Hammer
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MacMini 2021 M1 - Force Purge HD space
Does anyone know a way to free up the purgeable space on a MacMini M1 HD?
AppleCare said it'll purge itself in time, but it's been 2 weeks and I need that space because the HD is so small
256GB HD with 78GB purgeable is like 30% unavailable
I tried…
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Delete repeated icon. files
I have this annoying file called "icon." repeated all over my drive in dozens folders:
I wish to purge those files with the command: del /s /q /f /a icon.*
The problem is the last character of this icon file, it is not a simple dot like this one…
Victor
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Can't install back a purged package in Ubuntu
Hello all i've just migrated my desktop machine to Ubuntu 10.04. My problem is that i've purged a package and can't install this package back. Because I can't see it in the aptitude or apt-get's package list. I think I have play with some…
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Purging sensitive data from shared computer. Chrome hangs during this process
I have used a shared computer for a while, logging to Chrome with my personal account. When I was done I wanted to purge my sensitive data using standard Ctrl + Shift + Delete dialog. However, it turned out that Chrome hangs each time I open this…
trejder
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Purge of inactive memory fails
In total I have 14 GB of RAM. Currently, 1.5 GB is free and 3.9 GB is inactive.
I tried to purge my inactive memory. Both
$ purge
and
$ sudo purge
returned
[ERROR] Unable to open user client for address space 14603, error…
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