Use case : before making a VM template
test $EUID -eq 0 || { echo "Run this script as root"; exit 1; } package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=1 logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf rm -f /var/log/*-???????? /var/log/*.gz rm -f /var/log/dmesg.old rm -rf /var/log/anaconda cat /dev/null > /var/log/audit/audit.log cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp cat /dev/null > /var/log/lastlog cat /dev/null > /var/log/grubby rm -rf /etc/ssh/*key* sed -i 's/HOSTNAME=.*$/HOSTNAME=localhost/g' /etc/sysconfig/network echo 'localhost' > /etc/hostname find /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts -name ifcfg-* | while read cfg;do sed -i -e '/^HWADDR=/d' -e '/^UUID=/d' -e 's/^IPADDR=/#IPADDR=/g' $cfg done rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/*-persistent-*.rules yum clean all rm -f /root/.bash_history touch /.unconfigured history -c
For RHEL, add :
subscription-manager remove --all
subscription-manager unregister
subscription-manager clean
Additional tag : sysprep