On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, "Max Pyziur" <pyz at brama.com> wrote: > [... deleted for the sake of brevity ...] >> Much thanks to thoughtful comments and cautions, > > > You might want to crawl /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr and /var for files not under management and see if you have anything left over. > > I might use find here, > > # find /etc -type f -exec rpm -qf \{\} \; -print > > Of course the rpm command should be tweaked so it it just returns an error code if the file isn't in the database instead of any output and have find -print the path so you can redirect the output to a file. > > Remember not all files not under management are orphan files, so you will need to use some knowledge to figure out which you can rm. Great advice, and I'll take it up shortly. Much thanks. MP pyz at brama.com > > -Ross > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >