On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 4:07 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Lee wrote: ... snip ... > > Documentation and integration is perpetually out of date in Linux.
Right. Intellectually I know that; emotionally I find it a bit difficult to accept. > Also no one can agree on which documentation is canonical, another area I'm struggling to accept. Seeing referrals to the Arch wiki on a debian mailing list just seems wrong.. > > Is there really nothing better than sudo find / <something to show > > files with uid or gid perms> and try to figure out which of those > > program are not necessary? > > I don't think there is, no. After finding each of those things you > would need to do some research on each one. Right. That's what I was trying to avoid. > Those that are > particularly worrisome probably already do have some notes > somewhere. > > > $ sudo crontab -l > > ... > > 47 4 * * * (apt update >> apt-update.log 2>/dev/null) && \ > > (apt list --upgradable 2>/dev/null |\ > > egrep -v '^Listing' >| /etc/motd) > > You may like to look in to "apticron-systemd" for a systemd timer > that does the above. Nope. I can't remember what I asked on this list years ago, but I got a few suggestions on how to be notified about software updates and ended up writing my own script. If nothing else, I trust it to work properly. I also trust that if there's a problem with my script someone will let me know :) Thanks, Lee
