monitor remote rpm database

[Dag Wieers]

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,
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