Dne, 24. 04. 2009 03:22:12 je jida...@jidanni.org napisal(a): > Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) > $ man cruft > cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained > files) > > Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just > # cruft -d / > will probably produce tons of output on any system that has been > under > real use for more than a few weeks. > > Plenty of unknown students without hall passes wandering around the > Debian High School. Mucho unregistered aliens camping under the > Debian > highway overpasses. > > I won't name names but one must admit that squeaky clean Debian > systems > are few in reality. > > The problem seems mainly those immigrant families (packages) that > come > to our shores (systems) and then create all those children (files) > without registering them properly (so dlocate will know about them, > but > currently they must present a list of names upon arrival at our > shores, > and there is no way to update it dynamically later...) > > So what? Well, when one finds an old dog (file) that is causing some > error, > one sees if it has an owner (via dlocate), before shooting it (rm), > and > hoping it was mere bygone left behind, and not an important but > unregistered file. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > >
Your parallel with "unregistered aliens" is extremely malaprop, even more so in the context of an operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating system. I like to think it was just an (unwitty) attempt at being "funny"? -- Certifiable Loonix User 481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
