redhat-list Digest, Vol 144, Issue 1

[S Sai Krishna Prasad]

Hi Jonathan,

I am using the following version of rpm:

rpm-5.4.14-r0.0.corei7_64

Regards,
Sai Krishna

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> Subject: Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file
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> Hi All,
>
> I would like to know what is the use of log.XXXX file that is present in
> the directory /var/lib/rpm/log/. I saw that when I rebuild the rpm database
> using the command "rpm --rebuilddb" a new file is created and the older one
> is removed but the size of the file remains the same. I would like to know
> why it is present, what it stores and is there any way we can reduce the
> size of the file to like 1MB. Currently the size of the file is exactly
> 10MB.
>
> Regards and Thanks in Advance,
> Sai Krishna
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> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:27:53 -0400
> From: Jonathan Billings <jsbillin at umich.edu>
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> Subject: Re: Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file
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> What version of 'rpm' are you using?  What's the output of 'rpm -q rpm'?
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> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:17 AM, S Sai Krishna Prasad <saikripd at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I would like to know what is the use of log.XXXX file that is present in
> > the directory /var/lib/rpm/log/. I saw that when I rebuild the rpm
> database
> > using the command "rpm --rebuilddb" a new file is created and the older
> one
> > is removed but the size of the file remains the same. I would like to
> know
> > why it is present, what it stores and is there any way we can reduce the
> > size of the file to like 1MB. Currently the size of the file is exactly
> > 10MB.
> >
> > Regards and Thanks in Advance,
> > Sai Krishna
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