rpmverify-0.5-1 RPM for noarch

From Contribs

This package contains a script that will run once a month
from the crontab that will verify the installed rpm packages
using no verification scripts from the rpm itself vs information
contained in the rpm database and mail the results to root.

Provides

• rpmverify

Requires

• rpm
• vixie-cron
• crontabs
• gawk
• /bin/sh

Copyright

GPL

Changelog

* Tue Mar 02 1999 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.5-1
  - * Rewrote the script to use the /tmp directory again using
  -   methods for creating the temporary directory that avoid /tmp races.
  - * Modified the output to include the group listing that
  -   each rpm belongs to and made it a sorted output by group
  -   to make it easier to identify packages. 
  - * Added a couple of additional sanity checks to the script, and 
  -   if the script is called manually the output will now be emailed 
  -   to root before cleanup is done.
  - * Added a 1 second sleep cycle between each rpm verification
  -   in an effort to reduce overall system load while the script is running.
* Mon Feb 09 1998 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.4-1
  - Converted to a noarch rpm since it's only a bash shell script.
  - Added changelog to the spec file.
  - Removed incorrect package specifications from the spec file
  - Removed most of the comments from the rpmverify script and
  -  moved them into the package changelog.
  - Still learning how to use rpm to build packages and made
  -  a couple of minor mistakes that are now corrected.
* Mon Oct 27 1997 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.3-1
  - added a change directory into /root/tmp so the core file 
  - (if any is produced by a bad verify) will end up in the /root/tmp directory.
* Sun Oct 26 1997 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.2-2
  - Release 2 added pgp 2.6.2 signature to package
* Sun Oct 26 1997 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.2-1
  - Security fix, create and use /root/tmp to run the temporary scripts from instead
  - of /tmp since /tmp is world writable.
  - /root/tmp is not a normal directory on a redhat system, so will check
  - to see if its empty after the verify is complete, and if so remove it. 
  - If anything goes wrong during the verify, such as a coredump of the rpm
  - program itself, this /root/tmp directory will remain intact for later 
  - examination.
* Fri Sep 26 1997 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.01-2
  - I have noticed that some versions of rpm will coredump when verifying
  - rpms that were installed by a prior rpm version.
  - the /root/rpmverify.script attempts to catch this problem by
  - buliding a test for a core file after each rpm is tested.
  - If a core dump is found, the rpmverify.script will abort and the
  - results of the verify up to the core dump will be mailed 
  - to the root user. This is a bug in some versions of rpm, not
  - in this script.
* Thu Sep 25 1997 Garen Erdoisa <scamper@trisk.com>
  - rpmverify-0.01-1
  - initial release.

Files

/etc/cron.monthly/rpmverify

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