If you were root and did ls -a /etc/.pwd.lock you'd probably find it. On Sun, 16 May 2021, Patrice Duroux wrote:
> Hi, > > 1. I was wondering about the presence of the /etc/.pwd.lock file on my > system. > For sure 'apt-file search /etc/.pwd.lock' is no help, but 'man -K > .pwd.lock' do. > I also searched the Debian user mailing list and found some relevant > discussion on this file. > Querying the Debian Code Search was also very interesting. > > Could there be a Debian web page to handle some sort of global search? > I think this could be useful also for beginner not familiar with the > diversity of Debian services, no? > It will be for instance client to Debian Packages Search, Debian Manpages > and Code Search, (also Debian Wiki?) that would provide at least links if > topics are found in each of them. > May be user would be able to select their targets. > > 2. After this I was curious about the overall content of all the packages > on any dot files (including directories). For that I used the following to > 2 commands: > # the packages concerned > apt-file --filter-origins Debian --regex search '/\.' | cut -d ':' -f 1 | > uniq -c | sort -h > # the top 10 of dot files > apt-file --filter-origins Debian --regex search '/\.' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | > grep -o '/\..*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rh | head -10 > > They are very diverse and include some .git* ones. Are they always useful > to provide? > Is this something related to the Debian Policy? tracked by Debian > Maintainer and/or in the scope of some QA tools? > > My opinion (as a sysadmin) is that I am not a big fan of dot files and > moreover when they are not intended to be reserved (better restricted?) to > the userland. > > Cheers, > Patrice >
