On 19:56 Sat 16 Aug, Dale wrote:
> Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Will this work without a email? I could just run it in screen if needed.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
It looks like it uses crons email output to handle the mail, so you
probably could run it under screen/dtach and not have a problem.
You could also run it through nice and redirect the output to a file in
your home dir so that you won't even have to bother with reattaching the
term.
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I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly
