monitor remote rpm database
Mulley, Nikhil
mnikhil at corp.untd.com
Wed Dec 29 14:14:07 UTC 2004
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 at linuxbox123 root]# cd /var/lib/rpm/
[root at 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 at linuxbox123 rpm]# cd Packages
bash: cd: Packages: Not a directory
[root at 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 at linuxbox123 rpm]# file Packages
Packages: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order)
[root at linuxbox123 rpm]# pwd
/var/lib/rpm
[root at linuxbox123 rpm]#
Can anybody please tell me , if so , what could be the keys to read these files :-??
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mulley, Nikhil
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:36 PM
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Subject: monitor remote rpm database
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.
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