On Sun, 2004-13-06 at 08:00 -0700, Erik Espinoza wrote: > > > Any advice on how to accomplish this goal? > > I guess on my server machine I could keep a "master RPM list" and then have a cron > > run on each machine against that list. But I don't want to maintain that list by hand. > > You can get a list of all the RPMs on a machine with the command "rpm - q". Use that to generate a list on both machines, then compare them, probably using diff. Write a little perl (or whatever you prefer) to then parse the diff and perform the appropriate actions. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves