Re: Bit Twister: Is this the dhclient-exit-hooks you were talking about?

On 2006-09-24, The Ohmster <ohmster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

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To just see what packages have changed so that you can verify them more
individually, you can do the following:
rpm -Va | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rpm -qf | sort -u &> /tmp/file1
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Man that looks complicated but it also looks pretty informative. Will
bookmark it. Do you have any idea of what all that awk and xargs stuff
does? Well that will take time, will get back to that later. At least it
is Sunday and I have some time today. (Wow, I learned how to copy and
paste in vim today! This is so cool.)

[snip]

I have actually been running this command in another term to see what
results I would get:

rpm -Va | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rpm -qf | sort -u &>
/tmp/verify.package

Found it here:
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Distribution_Specific/Red_Hat_Linux

It is still running although now I am getting a lot of error messages.

error: file c: No such file or directory
error: file c: No such file or directory
error: file c: No such file or directory

On and on with this endless stream of error messages. I did look in /tmp
to see what was being written and the verify.package file is still at
zero bytes. But, I have a long list of strange, executable files now,
like this:

-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 653K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.0a57GJ
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 4.7M Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.2zoywP
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 19K Sep 24 13:24 #prelink#.aVUYRH
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 735K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.AXEagn
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 11K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.cH497I
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 321K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.CI2VE3
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 204K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.ewEGik
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 33K Sep 24 13:24 #prelink#.g2Q8be
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 677K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.G6BXrn
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 195K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.G9hASX
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 900K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.i6a2W6
-rwx------ 1 ohmster ohmster 145K Sep 24 13:42 #prelink#.iJPQBi

Trying to cat one of these files was a big mistake, I got all strange
characters and then my terminal was borked. No more vt100 for you! I was
able to type "reset" into my term window and that brought the terminal
back but what good is this going to be? Time to stop this process and
delete the strange files I guess. Too bad, it looked like it might have
resulted in something interesting.

Anybody have any idea of what this was supposed to do? I was under the
impression that it would show me all of the packages that have been
changed since installing the system but the results are not in yet, nor
do I ever think they will be. Time to kill the process and clean up.

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