On Friday 15 August 2008, 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
It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with
find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \;
that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's completely
unusable on /usr.
BTW I also tried to remove false positive hiding /usr/portage and the
overlays folder .
Does anyone know how to deal with spaces (to avoid false positives) and
keep reasonable running times?
TIA
Francesco
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