On Monday 14 March 2005 18:36, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:48:46PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > In any case, what I would like to do is to verify all the rpm packages > > on the system, and to re-install any that are damaged. > > Is that possible? > > If it is, is there any script that would simplify the task? > > Try 'rpm -Va', to verify all installed packages. (Look at the rpm man page > to see what the resulting codes mean.) You'll get some "false positives" > from config files, etc., which change in the course of normal events. > True but be aware that rpm -Va will report the full path file names that are missing have a had some attribute change since installation. It does not tell you what package they came from. You can determine that using: rpm -qf full-path-filename If there are a lot files you could write a script to do the lookups for you. I did that once a long time ago (somewhere in the redhat 5-7 era) and learned that it is possible for one file to be owned by more than one package. I do not know if that situation still exists. Also the verify will take quite a while to run and use a lot of cpu time. The process name is rpmv. Probably the most time consuming part of its check on each file is calculating the md5 checksum. I normally run it in the background like this: rpm -Va > verify-report-2005-03-14 2>&1 & You could even do this periodically and do a diff on the reports to see if anything changed since the last time or other baseline report. paul -- Paul Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA
