On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote: > > > > > >> Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. Anyway to > >> clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm thinking about files that may be > >> there but the programs are no longer installed. I read the man page for > >> dep but didn't see anything. Dang thing does a lot tho. > >> > > > > You could use the very long way round, something based on this: > > > > find /etc/ -type f -exec equery belongs {} \; > > > > then leave it alone for an hour or three > > > > > > Hmmmm, I had to stop that after a few minutes. It sort of took away > from my folding. Pushed my CPU to about 80% or so. > > There has to be a tool for this too. Gentoo has about everything else.
I do a similar thing every month as a cron job. It' runs at night so I just get an email the next day. -- #!/bin/bash # Print out orphan files in specified directories find /etc -xdev -type f -print|xargs qfile -o find /usr -xdev \( -path /usr/src -prune \) -o -type f -not -name '*.pyc' \ -not -name '*.pyo' -not -name .keep -print | \ xargs qfile -o find /lib -xdev \( -path /lib/modules -prune \) -o -type f |xargs qfile -o