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CRUFT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  CRUFT(8)

NAME

       cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)

SYNOPSIS

       cruft [-h] [-d DRIVES] [--chroots CHROOTS] [--ignore IGNORES] [-r REPORTFILE] [-m ADDRESS] [-k | -n | -N]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cruft command.  Please see /usr/share/doc/cruft/README.gz for more information.

       cruft is a program that goes over the Debian packaging system's database, and compares the contents of that with the files actually on your
       system, and produces a summary of the differences.

OPTIONS

       The following options are recognized:

       -h     Show a summary of options and exit.

       -d DRIVES
	      Search only the listed filesystems.  DRIVES should be an absolute path, or a quoted, space-separated list of multiple absolute paths
	      (eg,  "/	/usr /home"). Multiple -d options are allowed as well. If not specified, cruft attempts to autodetect which filesystems to
	      scan.

       --chroots CHROOTS
	      Do not perform validity checks on symlinks under these directories. Useful for whatever chroots are set up in the system.

       --ignore IGNORES
	      Treat the directory trees in IGNORES as if they did not exist.  IGNORES should be an absolute path,  or  a  quoted,  space-separated
	      list of multiple absolute paths. Multiple --ignore options are allowed as well.

       -r REPORTFILE
	      Output report to REPORTFILE instead of standard output.

       -m ADDRESS
	      Mail report to ADDRESS.

       -k     Only cleanup cruft's spool directory.

       -n     Generate input files for reporting, but do not generate a report.

       -N     Only generate a report, based on old input files.

       With  none of -k -n or -N cruft performs all the above three actions, that is cleans its own spool directory, generates new input files and
       produces a report. Please note that cruft never deletes any files outside its own spool directory.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       It is possible to get some debugging information from cruft by setting the variable CRUFT_DEBUG to 1. If you need more detailed information
       on what cruft is doing, set it to 2.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/cruft/README.gz

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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NAME

       pkgsync - Automated package synchronization tool

SYNOPSIS

       pkgsync

DESCRIPTION

       pkgsync	is  a  tool  for  keeping multiple machines reasonably similar and clean. Packages can either be in a `must be installed', `may be
       installed' or `must not be installed' list (which is presumed to be distributed separately  using  a  tool  such  as  rdist  or	cfengine).
       pkgsync	will  take care of meeting the demands put down in the lists, and then removing everything that is not in the `must' or `may' list
       and is not necessary for their operations (as determined by aptitude).

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Print a short help text and exit.

       -s, --simulate
	      Do everything as usual, but put aptitude in simulation mode, causing it to never do any changes (except update and autoclean,  which
	      should both be harmless) to your system. This is especially useful on a new system to make sure pkgsync behaves as expected.

	      Note  that aptitude prints out its intended actions _before_ running the conflict resolver. If there's a conflict somewhere, chances
	      are that the results on your system will be different from what aptitude prints out.

       -k, --keep-unused
	      Instruct aptitude to not remove cruft (ie. unused packages); this is morally equivalent to having an "*" entry in mayhave.

       -d, --dpkg-glob
	      When encountering a wildcard pattern, pkgsync tries to `un-glob' it.  Traditionally, this was done using dpkg -- however,  in  later
	      versions	one can use aptitude instead. Using aptitude is a little slower, but the syntax is a lot more flexible, supporting regular
	      expressions and various searches on fields. Giving --dpkg-glob makes pkgsync use dpkg, which is not very useful except for backwards
	      compatibility.

       -a, --aptitude-glob
	      Use aptitude's globbing instead of dpkg's globbing (see above). This option is the default.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/pkgsync/README.Debian (complete tutorial and reference documentation)

AUTHOR

       pkgsync is Copyright 2004-2007 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>.

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