Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > for instance, if a given shared library hasn't been linked in weeks > or months, that's something to look at. if none of the binary > executables in a package have been executed in that long, another > package to examine, that sort of thing.
You could possibly do something with this, which checks each installed package for files that have been accessed in the last six months. Please note, however, that it cannot work if you mount your relevant filesystems with noatime! for P in $(dpkg -l '*' | awk '/^i/{print $2}') do echo -n "Checking $P: " >&2 U=$( for F in $(dpkg -L "$P") do test -f "$F" && find "$F" -atime +180 done 2>/dev/null ) test -n "$U" && echo "in use" >&2 || echo "MAYBE NOT USED RECENTLY" >&2 done Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kt1rp7xffn....@news.roaima.co.uk