That Huge .cpan Folder in /Home

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Posted by Mark | Tagged under perl | Posted on June 16, 2010

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A common question we get from cPanel administrators is whether it’s Ok to remove /home/.cpan since, on many servers, it tends to grow to a size exceeding 1G. The short answer is yes – that folder is used by cPanel and Perl, and contains perl module installation files.

If you find that yours is occupying too much disk space, delete it, and run the following commands:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN> cpan> reload index cpan> reload cpan cpan> exit

/scripts/checkperlmodules –full

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cPanel: eliminar directorio .cpan por excesivo tamaño \| rm-rf.es said on Aug-10-2010
	[...] que muchas veces el directorio /home/.cpan termina ocupando cerca de 1G de espacio. Gracias a The cPanel Admin descubro la forma de eliminarlo y regenerarlo sin riesgo, pasando de ocupar 1G a apenas [...]

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