On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:41:53PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:19:35PM -0700, a s p a s i a wrote: > > would `rpm -qa` show me all installs, in addition > > to rpm packages? > > No. rpm -qa will query the rpm database. If the package was installed > differently, then there won't be an entry > > > for example, if I want to find > > out what has been installed, in terms of SW packages > > in a linux host .... > > > > is there any other CLI that could list all the apps - > > ie: Veritas Foundation Suite, NetBackup, systems monitoring > > applciations, etc. etc. > > tripwire or something like that. If somebody manually copies a binary > to /usr/bin, there's no way any cli utility other than a tripwire-like > utility will find it. That's true of every OS that I've worked on. > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > > Not entirely true - you could list all files not installed from rpm by doing something like find /bin -exec rpm -qif {} \; | grep "not owned" Note that any configuration files which you have modified will be listed as `not owned' peter ---- Peter Skensved Email : peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dept. of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list