Patch Status of RH8 server?????

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:01:26PM +0530, truejack at indiainfo.com wrote:
>    I acquired a pair of RedHat Linux 8 servers recently.
> 
>    Although I do a lot of AIX and HP-UX sysadmin stuff, I'm a RedHat newbie.
> 
>    My questions is, How do i get a list of all the patches installed on a RH8
>    box.

# rpm -qa

To get the sorted by date, you can do something like this (watch the
line wrapping):

#!/bin/bash
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{installtime} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}
%{installtime:date}\n' | sort -g | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* //'

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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