As part of running autopkg-conductor over a long period of time, you may see a large percentage of disk space used on the Mac where you’re running AutoPkg and autopkg-conductor. This is because AutoPkg doesn’t remove older files from ~/Library/AutoPkg/Cache and autopkg-conductor does not remove older logfiles from ~/Library/Logs. To assist with this issue, I’ve written a couple of scripts. For more details, please see below the jump.
To assist with preserving available disk space on your AutoPkg host Mac, the following scripts are available:
- 801.clean-autopkg-repo
- 802.remove.autopkg.conductor.logs
Both scripts are designed to be installed into the following location:
/etc/periodic/daily
Installing them in that location will enable the periodic tool to run both scripts daily on your AutoPkg host Mac.
Permissions for both scripts should be set as follows:
root:wheel - rwxr-xr-x
The 801.clean-autopkg-repo script does the following task:
- Determine which files in the ~/Library/AutoPkg/Cache directory are older than the number of days specified in the script (by default, 20 days)
- Delete all files in the ~/Library/AutoPkg/Cache directory which are older than the specified number of days
This script is available below and also from GitHub at the following location:
https://github.com/rtrouton/autopkg-conductor/blob/main/cleanup_scripts/801.clean-autopkg-repo
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Remove AutoPkg-downloaded files older than a specified number of days | |
| # Add username of the account used to run AutoPkg | |
| autopkg_username="autopkg" | |
| # Age of files to retain. For example, setting the following number | |
| # will delete anything older than 20 days | |
| # | |
| # autopkg_cache_age="20" | |
| autopkg_cache_age="20" | |
| /usr/bin/find "/Users/$autopkg_username/Library/AutoPkg/Cache" -mindepth 1 -mtime +"$autopkg_cache_age" -delete |
The 802.remove.autopkg.conductor.logs script is designed to do the following:
- Determine which autopkg-conductor log files in the ~/Library/Logs directory are older than the number of days specified in the script (by default, 20 days)
- Delete all relevant logfiles in the ~/Library/Logs directory which are older than the specified number of days.
This script is available below and also from GitHub at the following location:
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Remove autopkg-conductor logfiles older than a specified number of days | |
| # Add username of the account used to run AutoPkg | |
| autopkg_username="autopkg" | |
| # Age of logfiles to retain. For example, setting the following number | |
| # will delete anything older than 20 days | |
| # | |
| # autopkg_log_age="20" | |
| autopkg_log_age="20" | |
| /usr/bin/find "/Users/$autopkg_username/Library/Logs" -name "autopkg-run-for*" -mindepth 1 -mtime +"$autopkg_log_age" -delete |