-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 September 2003 07:29 am, Ross Macintyre wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:52:47 +0200 Jason Dale <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > Thanks for the info y'all :) > > > > Micheal, I know the term 'lock files' should be fairly > > obvious, but what exactly do these files 'lock' ? > > where can I find more info on these? The lock files "lock" the rpm database. For more details, have a look at: http://rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ You could also try browsing: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=linux.redhat.rpm > I don't know the answer to this, but I have lots of trouble with rpm > so I thought I'd just share my views. (I would also be interested in > finding out more about these 'lock' files). > I am looking after about 200 linux machines and am trying to keep > about 70 RedHat 8.0 machines up-to-date with the RPMs. I simply run a > script that checks all the machines rpm's and compares them against > one particular machine. When I get an update to do I run a script > that basically updates the rpm(s) on all the machines in turn. > What I have found is that more and more frequently the script hangs > and I have to remote log into a particular machine and kill -9 the > process and let the script continue. Quite often the rpm database on > the particular machine is wrong I have to add or remove rpms > accordingly. You might want to try upgrading rpm on a machine or two to see if that helps (It should): ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.1.1 Make sure you get the rpm and popt packages built for the 8.0 release. For example: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.1.1/rpm-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm Hope that helps, - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/V+8vn/07WoAb/SsRAmIVAJ9rCnR3kYPVqM7hCdKfW0REC77cQwCgjuAT aCOoCtHJcTw59qIptZlZm+w= =PVho -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
