Daily maintenance

[Derek Broughton]

Paul wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm just wondering what kind of scripts/tasks people run on a daily basis.
> Currently I backup my home and /var/log directories.  Any other
> suggestions?

I run this weekly:

aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' '
> /etc/apt/installed.txt

(all on one line, of course) which gives me a convenient list of currently
installed packages so that I can duplicate this setup on a new install.
-- 
derek