Should RPM check its database?
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Nov 17 23:56:59 UTC 2006
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:
> Should RPM check its database periodically? (Currently I don't believe it
> does.) It would be helpful if, say, there were a daily cron task that
> syslog'ed and / or emailed root if there were a problem with the RPM
> database. The check appears to be pretty fast. The following takes well
> under a minute on my old machine:
I would check for verify processes that have hung. I have a corrupted rpm
database on my FC6/7 box at home that hangs rpm processes that try to use
the rpm databse.
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