Re: How to determine which config files I have changed

[Jens Peter Secher <jps@debian.org>]

Paul Cager <paul@paulcager.org> writes:

> I would like to be able to create a list of all of the configuration
> files I have changed / created since installation. Mainly to make it
> easy if I wanted to rebuild my system from scratch.

You could try out the package 'changetrack', edit
/etc/default/changetrack to

  ## When set to yes, all conffiles on your system is tracked for
  ## changes in addition to the ones you put in /etc/changetrack.conf
  AUTO_TRACK_ALL_CONFFILES=yes

and run

  sudo /etc/cron.daily/changetrack

to make sure that all conffiles on your system is listed in

  /var/lib/changetrack/all_conffiles.txt .

>From then on, you will receive email with the diff of your changes and
they will be recorded in /var/lib/changetrack.

Notice that not all configuration files are dpkg conffiles, so each time
you edit a configuration file for the first time, check whether it is in
all_conffiles.txt, and if not, manually put it in

  /etc/changetrack.conf .


HTH,
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