On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 17:11 -0800, William Mattison wrote: > > John says (regarding "rpm -qf --queryformat..." error codes) > > This means that when rkhunter (RKH) uses the 'rpm' command to check a > > package it is getting an error back. All it can do is log the problem. > > If you run something like 'rpm -V chkconfig' then you will probably get > > an error - that is what RKH is seeing. > > But why all the rpm errors? Is yum not doing something that it should > be doing during an update? Am I not doing something I should be > doing? Is something wrong with RPM or my RPM database? What and > where is the real bug, and what's the permanent fix? > So what happened when you ran 'rpm -V ...'? It will probably show that the package has changed in some way. That, in turn, may be normal if (say) a configuration file has changed (in which case look at RKH PKGMGR_NO_VRFY). It may be due to prelinking. Unfortunately prelinking can change things such that dependency errors occur, and this will cause RKH and (AFAIK) rpm and prelink itself to trip up. > > John says (regarding prelink issues): > > The problem here is prelinking. It will change file properties when it > > runs, but RKH tries to detect this and so obtain the true values for > > each file (either by using the rpm package manager or using the prelink > > command to verify the file). In some cases a dependency the file has, > > has changed. again, RKH cannot do anything about that, but suggests > > running the prelink command. If it is occurring a lot with different > > files, then you can try running 'prelink -qa', 'prelink -fa' or just > > wait for the regular prelink cron job to run when it should sort out > > prelinking problems. However, when I last looked the job ran about once > >every two weeks :-) > > "prelink -qa" fixes things only until the next yum update. Should yum > do a "prelink -qa" at the end of each update? > No, because not all packages require/use prelinking. A yum update doesn't necessarily cause a problem with prelinking. There are only problems if some dependency fails. John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
