On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, mnikhil m wrote:
I want to know how can I monitor remote machines rpm database , so that when ever a user on that machine installs a new rpm on the system, thinking that I have root access to the remote machine . when I tried to search in install.log which is in /root directory , it is created only when te distribution is installed and thereby not updated , Where is the path of the rpm database (gdbm) files that rpm maintains and how do I read them ( what could be the keys to read the gdbm files) and from them generate the reports and send a mail to root or a groupmail.
You may want to look into Dconf
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/
and change the default config file to only include the RPM database output (if that is what you're only interested in).
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]