Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:21, Bill Perkins wrote:
jludwig wrote:
On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:58, Scot L. Harris wrote:
Prelink is used to modify ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamiclly linked binaries to reduce startup time. Check out the man page for prelink to get more details.
The changes you describe are consistent with prelink.
Yes- after perusing the man page, that makes some sense. However, where did prelink get triggered from? I sure didn't run it.
Depends on how you run the system. By default there should be a cron job in /etc/cron.daily called prelink. If your system runs 24x7 it should run at least once a day.
Interesting. /var/log/prelink.log doesn't leave any timestamps; apparently, it's part of the base package, but for some reason, it hasn't made itself apparent (at least to tripwire) until now. For the most part, the system runs 24/7, with the occasional reboot into Slackware for an hour or two; had this system operating since beginning of September. Fedora has some interesting quirks, to say the least! Still easier to deal with than Microsoft :)
You could try something like; --> rpm -vV -a > /root/rpm_verify Then try less the file /root/rpm_verify.
Cool! I've had it running for a few hours now (this is a 1GHz PIII of some sort, with 256M RAM, so it's not the fastest processor on the block), and the output looks reasonable so far. I've just switched to FC4 from Slackware, and I don't know all the ins and outs of rpm, yum, and up2date, so even though I've been using Linux for 10 years now, I'm still on a learning curve (which is why I jumped to Linux in the first place). Thanks for all the help, I'll let you know what I find.
It is a constant learning curve, always new things to learn. And usually just when you get a handle on one service it gets changed. :)
Sounds like Microsoft ;)