I'm looking to make a script that will do the following;
yum update -y
cd /home
wget [URL]
sh latest
(install various scripts like ConfigServer series, ClamAV)
edit settings in files
delete any downloaded archives (clean up)
reboot/delete self
There is this directory with a lot of .deb files in it. /var/cache/apt/archives
Can i delete all these files in that directory? is it safe? They are temporary files right?
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