Re: monitor remote rpm database

[mnikhil m <mnikhil juno gmail com>]

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 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 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°
> > /(_)\
> >   ^ ^
> >
>