On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Chris Jason Richards 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 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. :
"dpkg --audit" is supposed to check what packages are only partially installed, but i have yet to try it while there was a problem on my system. this might be a good start at finding files dpkg does not directly manage, but keep in mind that symlinks and config files are not listed in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files. cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sort | uniq > /tmp/dpkg.list locate "*" | sort > /tmp/locate.list diff /tmp/dpkg.list /tmp/locate.list the most interesting part is finding out what dpkg thinks is installed, but is not really on the filesystem. (a good way to detect a probably broken package) also... a sure fire way to clean up some of the config files dpkg has replaced is to look at the list generated by 'locate "*.dpkg-*"'. of course have updatedb configured to ignore things like /home and /tmp and /var/spool/news (if you run a news server), and maybe /dev. Also if updatedb does not run automatically from cron somewhere, run it before using the locate program for any of this. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
