Hi,
Now ....I tried to go to /var/log
and there I found rpm log files
[root@linuxbox123 root]# cd /var/log
[root@linuxbox123 log]# ls *rpm*
rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.1 rpmpkgs.2 rpmpkgs.3 rpmpkgs.4
[root@linuxbox123 log]#
after diffing each file I found the difference of the files / packages
that were installed
[root@linuxbox123 log]# diff rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.4
212d211
< j2re-1.4.0_03-fcs.i386.rpm
324d322
< mutt-1.4.1-4.i386.rpm
[root@linuxbox123 log]#
But my question stands as when did the exact change/or installation
happen , and what is the significance of numerical extensions .1,.2,.3
in each of the files as I tried to diff
rpmpkgs and rpmpkgs.1 , I found no difference :( ( little confused here..)
[root@linuxbox123 log]# diff rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.1
[root@linuxbox123 log]#
then I simply did long listing and found that 'rpmpkgs' file is the
latest file , Should I suppose it or not ? ( Noticing the Date)
[root@linuxbox123 log]# ls -l *rpm*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14953 Dec 29 04:03 rpmpkgs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14953 Dec 25 04:02 rpmpkgs.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14931 Dec 18 04:03 rpmpkgs.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14931 Dec 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14904 Dec 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.4
so simply diffing them would have the solution .. What do you say guys ???
Regards,
Nikhil.
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:58:16 +0530, mnikhil m <mnikhil.juno(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi ,
Oops Sorry I lately found that rpm does not use gdbm and it uses
Berkely Database
and stores the file in /var/lib/rpm
[root@linuxbox123 root]# cd /var/lib/rpm/
[root@linuxbox123 rpm]# ls
Basenames __db.001 __db.003 Filemd5s Installtid Packages
Provideversion Requirename Sha1header Triggername
Conflictname __db.002 Dirnames Group Name Providename
Pubkeys Requireversion Sigmd5
[root@linuxbox123 rpm]# cd Packages
bash: cd: Packages: Not a directory
[root@linuxbox123 rpm]# ls
Basenames __db.001 __db.003 Filemd5s Installtid Packages
Provideversion Requirename Sha1header Triggername
Conflictname __db.002 Dirnames Group Name Providename
Pubkeys Requireversion Sigmd5
[root@linuxbox123 rpm]# file Packages
Packages: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order)
[root@linuxbox123 rpm]# pwd
/var/lib/rpm
[root@linuxbox123 rpm]#
Can anybody please tell me , if so , what could be the keys to read
these files :-??
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:40:01 +0530, mnikhil m <mnikhil.juno(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All ,
> Happy Holidays :)
>
> I want to know how can I monitor remote machines rpm database , so
> that when ever a user on that machine installs a new rpm on the
> system, thinking that I have root access to the remote machine .
> when I tried to search in install.log which is in /root directory , it
> is created only when te distribution is installed and thereby not
> updated ,
> Where is the path of the rpm database (gdbm) files that rpm maintains
> and how do I read them ( what could be the keys to read the gdbm
> files) and from them generate the reports and send a mail to root or a
> groupmail.
>
> Regards,
> Nikhil.
> °v°
> /(_)\
> ^ ^
>