Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes: >btw, simply backing up a system's conffiles can be done by feeding the >output of 'cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles' into tar/cpio/afio etc. That misses files generated in postinst. How about something like this: cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles <(find /etc -type f) | sort -u - Jim Van Zandt