On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:
Should RPM check its database periodically? (Currently I don't believe it does.) It would be helpful if, say, there were a daily cron task that syslog'ed and / or emailed root if there were a problem with the RPM database. The check appears to be pretty fast. The following takes well under a minute on my old machine:
I would check for verify processes that have hung. I have a corrupted rpm database on my FC6/7 box at home that hangs rpm processes that try to use the rpm databse.
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