> George Sinclair 
> 
> I have some old clients that I want to remove from disk because they're 
> taking up space and licenses. I have their NSR client resource 
> information saved, including the clientid - not that I couldn't get that 

> from the media database - but just in case. I also have full backups of 
> their indexes. I don't need these anymore.
> 
> Can I just remove the NSR client resources from NMC and then run 'nsrck 
> -R -Y client'. Is that all I need to do? Is that the correct order?
> 
> Also, why not just run 'rm -rf client'. I mean, aside from the obvious 
> possibility for horrible mistype, does the nsrck command accomplish 
> anything more or better?
> 
> Even if NW was somehow trying to prune the index when you ran it, what 
> difference would it make if you don't need it anymore?

The few times I've done this (long ago*), I've was advised (by Sun 
support, back when they were still Sun and supported Networker :-/ ) to:

1. Delete the client from the management interface (nwadmin in those days)
2. Stop Networker
3. Delete, rename or move the client directory(s)
4. Restart Networker

* We seem to have the luxury of clients going away far too rarely... 
usually they're showing up instead  :-)

FWIW.

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