- review and justification of each delta. - security - compare two config deltas for unexpected changes. - clean up. Since apt-get/dpkg (a) knows about the .conf files (b) knows the default .conf. (c) "upgrade" detects deltas and queries what to do about the situation I thought there might be some way to report the set of deltas. The files in /etc fall into for categories 1. default .conf files from installed .debs. 2. non-default .conf files from installed .debs 3. old .conf files from removed .debs; failed installations, etc. 4. other files; typically user installed.My configuration has ~1500 files in /etc and its subdirs and ~1100 .conf files listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. I'd like to sort things out and clean up some of the cruft.
--rich Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Rich Johnson wrote:Hi folks--...Is there a way to list the _non-default_, or modified, .conf files required to transferd/or restore a configuration?Files like: - krb5.conf; - httpd.conf - timezone - cron.d files - bind filesI already maintain the list of packages (dpkg --get-selections) but that only yields a default configuration.i put "all" conf files in /etc not in /var/* etc.etc.. and backup of "the server's conf" ( /etc ) fits on a floppy c ya alvin