monitor remote rpm database

[Mulley, Nikhil]

Hi,
Now ....I tried to go to /var/log
and there I found rpm log files
[root at linuxbox123 root]# cd /var/log
[root at linuxbox123 log]# ls *rpm*
rpmpkgs  rpmpkgs.1  rpmpkgs.2  rpmpkgs.3  rpmpkgs.4
[root at linuxbox123 log]#

after diffing each file I found the difference of the files / packages that were installed

[root at linuxbox123 log]# diff rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.4
212d211
< j2re-1.4.0_03-fcs.i386.rpm
324d322
< mutt-1.4.1-4.i386.rpm
[root at 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 at linuxbox123 log]# diff rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.1
[root at 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 at 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.


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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mulley, Nikhil
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:44 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: monitor remote rpm database


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 :-??

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mulley, Nikhil
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:36 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
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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