On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Ross Walker wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, "Max Pyziur" <p...@brama.com> wrote:
>

[... deleted for the sake of brevity ...]


>> Much thanks to thoughtful comments and cautions,
>
>
> You might want to crawl /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr and /var for files not under 
> management and see if you have anything left over.
>
> I might use find here,
>
> # find /etc -type f -exec rpm -qf \{\} \; -print
>
> Of course the rpm command should be tweaked so it it just returns an error 
> code if the file isn't in the database instead of any output and have find 
> -print the path so you can redirect the output to a file.
>
> Remember not all files not under management are orphan files, so you will 
> need to use some knowledge to figure out which you can rm.

Great advice, and I'll take it up shortly.

Much thanks.

MP
p...@brama.com

>
> -Ross
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