?1.1GB /home/.cpan

[harman]

Have a case where 1.1GB is consumed by /home/.cpan
Read this thread and this one that says it can be deleted with out any issues.

I know cpan is used by perl. How do I know if this is actively used by cpanel or if it can be deleted. It is consuming alot of disk space.

Tia.

cPanel 11.25.0-R46156 - WHM 11.25.0 - X 3.9
FEDORA 4 i686 vmware

[cPanelJared]

It is safe to move /home/.cpan. I recommend moving it, not deleting it, until you are sure you no longer need it.

After moving/renaming /home/.cpan, I recommend running the following commands:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> reload index
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> exit
# /scripts/checkperlmodules --full

This will make sure that all the sources that CPAN needs are present and up to date, and also that all Perl modules that cPanel needs are installed.

The CPAN sources should be fetched anyway when checkperlmodules runs, such as during a regular cPanel update, but following this procedure will let you make sure it completes and no problems are detected.

Once this is finished, it should be safe to remove the old /home/.cpan that you renamed before you started the above procedure.

[harman]

So Did the following Steps:

# du -ahx --max-depth=1 /home -ahx --max-depth=1
# mv /home/.cpan /home/.cpanold
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> reload index
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> exit
# /scripts/checkperlmodules --full
# du -ahx --max-depth=1 /home -ahx --max-depth=1

/home/.cpanold = 1.1 gb
/home/.cpan = 24 mb

24 mb instead of 1.1 gb sounds better to me. Thanks for your help. I will delete the old one once updater runs a couple times.

[cPanelJared]

You are very welcome. That is indeed a very big size difference. I am glad I was able to help.