On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:21, Bill Perkins wrote: > jludwig wrote: > > On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:58, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > >>Prelink is used to modify ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamiclly linked > >>binaries to reduce startup time. Check out the man page for prelink to > >>get more details. > >> > >>The changes you describe are consistent with prelink. > > Yes- after perusing the man page, that makes some sense. However, where > did prelink get triggered from? I sure didn't run it. > Depends on how you run the system. By default there should be a cron job in /etc/cron.daily called prelink. If your system runs 24x7 it should run at least once a day. > > You could try something like; > > --> rpm -vV -a > /root/rpm_verify > > Then try less the file /root/rpm_verify. > > Cool! I've had it running for a few hours now (this is a 1GHz PIII of > some sort, with 256M RAM, so it's not the fastest processor on the > block), and the output looks reasonable so far. I've just switched to > FC4 from Slackware, and I don't know all the ins and outs of rpm, yum, > and up2date, so even though I've been using Linux for 10 years now, I'm > still on a learning curve (which is why I jumped to Linux in the first > place). Thanks for all the help, I'll let you know what I find. It is a constant learning curve, always new things to learn. And usually just when you get a handle on one service it gets changed. :)
