Subject: Re: Forcing update of config/rc.d files
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/12/2005 17:43:27
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:15:12AM -0400, Johnny Lam wrote:
> David Brownlee wrote:
> > Is there any command that can be run to report which installed
> > config files differ from the defaults in $PREFIX/share/examples?
> >
> > After various package upgrades I have some machines which have
> > accumulated out of date config and rc.d scripts (I have
> > PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=yes), and I'd like to know which ones.
>
> You can "cd" into each of the /var/db/* directories and run:
>
> ./+FILES CHECK-REMOVE
> ./+RCD_SCRIPTS CHECK-REMOVE
>
> CHECK-REMOVE will list all of the files that are different from the
> sample files and that they are safe to remove. It doesn't actually
> touch any of the files on your filesystem, so it's perfectly safe to run.
Veeeery nice! :-) Thanks!
GH
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