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Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 21:02, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if there's a handy way to look for files
>>on a machine (like /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/sysconfig/*, etc)
>>that have been modified relative to the installed RPM's.
>>
>>Since files installed via RPM have MD5 checksums, it shouldn't
>>be too hard to find tweaked files, right?
>>
>>I recently realized that I have no easy way to isolate and summarize
>>the machine I currently use versus its initial state "out of the box".
>>
>>What tools are available?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Philip
>
>
> rpm will do the trick...
> rpm -V will show you the modifications to the rpm you specified and xargs can
> help you there very nicely. rpm -qa | xargs rpm -V
> or rpm -V `rpm -qa` if you like that one better.
>
> If the output line has a 5 in it, then your md5 sum doesn't match.
> That leaves you with
> rpm -V `rpm -qa` | grep ^..5
>
> Peter.
>
or indeed
rpm -Va
which does exactly the same thing
:)
Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX
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