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Tag: Fedora

Linux

List rpm package content

To list the contents of a package just run the command # rpm -ql packagename Example # rpm -ql nmap /usr/bin/nmap /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70 /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING.OpenSSL /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/README /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap-fingerprinting-article.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap.deprecated.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap.usage.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap_doc.html /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap_manpage.html /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz /usr/share/nmap /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes /usr/share/nmap/nmap-os-fingerprints /usr/share/nmap/nmap-protocols /usr/share/nmap/nmap-rpc /usr/share/nmap/nmap-service-probes /usr/share/nmap/nmap-services

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Rotate logs manually

Today I had to manually rotate a couple of logs since they had generated a filesize of over 1.8GB of pure text. This was done by issuing the command logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/file_to_be_rotated In my case I had to rotate my firewall log /var/log/firewall described in a custom made file, /etc/logrotate.d/firewall logrotate -v -f /etc/logrotate.d/firewall -v Verbose […]

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Upgrade from Fedora Core 7 to Core 8

This is the steps I took to upgrade a running Fedora Core 7 installation to Core 8 using yum from the command line. Please note that live upgrades are not recommended by the Fedora Project. Make a list of the systems current packages for later reference: rpm -qa –qf ‘%{NAME}\n’ | sort | uniq > […]

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Query RPM database/packages and list their architecture

If you use the –queryformat argument with rpm it is possible to query RPMs for different architectures installed# rpm -qa –queryformat %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH}\\n | grep dbus-glib | sortResultdbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.5-i386dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.5-x86_64This can also be used in one of my previous posts: Remove duplicate packages when querying the rpm database.

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Enabling Remote Access to the Installation System

You may access either graphical or text interfaces for the Redhat installation system from any other system. Access to a text mode display requires telnet, which is installed by default on Fedora systems. To remotely access the graphical display of an installation system, use client software that supports the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) display protocol. […]

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