In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin > can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not > removed completely, etc. ?
I occasionally use dbackup to get a list of files which are not part of a package. Put any directories not to search in in /etc/dbackup/prune. Dos partitions, home directories and any NFS mounted sunsites are prime candidates. BTW this can take a _long_ time to run. > I know when I remove some debian packages usuing dselect, it usually > throws tons of messages like "can't remove /blah/bing/bang/" which scroll > by too fast. In the end, it seems like I have crap just sitting around > everywhere. Often these are due to the package removing a directory before the files in it are removed. IMHO dpkg should handle this better - e.g. by having a "pending" list of directories to remove. More often than not they are removed later on. Hope this helps, Adrian -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
