At 5:07 PM -0500 11/18/06, Jim Cornette wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: ... >> However, from reading RPM's source, the proper and undocumented command is: >> >> []$ rpm --verifydb > >Thanks! I ran the command just now on my FC6 installation and this >command came back with no output. At least I verified both databases >with the email read and trials. > >> >> which seems to work fine as a normal user, as it opens the files read-only. > >Since some files are not visible to normal users, I usually do verify >operations as root. I also tried the command as a normal user and >nothing was flagged. For rpm -qaV though, I found chroot files and >intentionally hidden from the normal user to be flagged as missing if >done as a normal user. I did a "rpm -vv --verifydb", which is why I have some confidence that the command works as a normal user. No new corruption yet, though, to prove it. Rpm, of course, can access the RPM database. It's not the same issue as accessing every file on the system, which rpm cannot do as a normal user. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
