YUM and RPM often freezes my computer

[subsolar at subsolar.com (Paul)]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 00:13 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> >It's very likely your /var filesystem is filling up.
> >I recommend a _bare_minimum_ of 4GB for /var these days.
> >  
> >
> 
> Is there a way I can I flush the contents of var, before I run YUM, just 
> to be safe?

yum clean packages

This will delete the packages you've downloaded.

yum clean all

Cleans packages and headers downloaded ... the headers will be
downloaded again the next time you run yum update

Regards,
Paul