On 20:21 Sat 16 Aug, Dale wrote:
> forgottenwizard wrote:
>> On 19:56 Sat 16 Aug, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Albert Hopkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. Anyway
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm thinking about files that may
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> there but the programs are no longer installed. I read the man page
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> dep but didn't see anything. Dang thing does a lot tho.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You could use the very long way round, something based on this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> find /etc/ -type f -exec equery belongs {} \;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> then leave it alone for an hour or three
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmmm, I had to stop that after a few minutes. It sort of took away
>>>>> from my folding. Pushed my CPU to about 80% or so. There has to be a
>>>>> tool for this too. Gentoo has about everything else.
>>>> I do a similar thing every month as a cron job. It' runs at night so I
>>>> just get an email the next day.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>
>>>> # Print out orphan files in specified directories
>>>>
>>>> find /etc -xdev -type f -print|xargs qfile -o
>>>> find /usr -xdev \( -path /usr/src -prune \) -o -type f -not -name
>>>> '*.pyc' \
>>>> -not -name '*.pyo' -not -name .keep -print | \
>>>> xargs qfile -o
>>>> find /lib -xdev \( -path /lib/modules -prune \) -o -type f |xargs qfile
>>>> -o
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Will this work without a email? I could just run it in screen if needed.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-) :-)
>>
>> It looks like it uses crons email output to handle the mail, so you
>> probably could run it under screen/dtach and not have a problem.
>>
>> You could also run it through nice and redirect the output to a file in
>> your home dir so that you won't even have to bother with reattaching the
>> term.
>>
>>
>
> I'll try it in screen and see what happens. I didn't see anything related
> to mail but thought I may be missing something. Will report back later. I
> do wish portage had this little feature builtin tho.
> Oh, got my backups handy too. LOL
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
I think I've heard of such a program, but it wasn't much better than the
one provided here, and still required the user to go hunting through the
"orphan" list to see what may or may not be truly orphaned.
--
I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly
