Re: file lists and diffs?

2007-05-04 Thread Mathew Snyder
Thanks for all the input. I've found that the program puts most of its files in one location and only a few in one other. I don't actually need to worry about this anymore as the tar command isn't as long as I thought it would be. Mathew Mathew Snyder wrote: > I have been given a task of instal

Re: file lists and diffs?

2007-05-04 Thread Howard Sherman
I think Rodrick's idea is best. But if the installation process doesn't let you specify an installation directory, and if it doesn't document where it's putting the binaries and config files, then perhaps right after the install you could use the find command in a manner such as the following: # f

Re: file lists and diffs?

2007-05-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 22:40 -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote: > I have been given a task of installing a piece of backup software, then > tarring > up all of the associated files in order to automate the installation onto > other > machines. The only way I can think of doing this is to do an ls -l on

Re: file lists and diffs?

2007-05-03 Thread Mathew Snyder
unfortunately, no. It has predetermined file locations spread across the drive Mathew Rodrick Brown wrote: > On 5/3/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been given a task of installing a piece of backup software, >> then tarring >> up all of the associated files in order to aut

Re: file lists and diffs?

2007-05-03 Thread Rodrick Brown
On 5/3/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been given a task of installing a piece of backup software, then tarring up all of the associated files in order to automate the installation onto other machines. The only way I can think of doing this is to do an ls -l on / and then doi

file lists and diffs?

2007-05-03 Thread Mathew Snyder
I have been given a task of installing a piece of backup software, then tarring up all of the associated files in order to automate the installation onto other machines. The only way I can think of doing this is to do an ls -l on / and then doing a diff after the installation and manually adding t