Ron Johnson wrote:
Very similar to the script I use, except that mine auto-diffs. The question is why run it as root? Am I missing a security issue? ~gt is my 'admin' user and permissions are 700.Every time after I run apt-get, I run this script AS ROOT: #!/bin/shx=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M`COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > ~/dpkg/dpkg.installed.$x ln -sf ~/dpkg/dpkg.installed.$x ~/dpkg/dpkg.installed diff'ing files tells me what changed.
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