On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 00:30, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:12, stuartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > To save space I deleted all files in /var/spool/up2date and > > /var/spool/repackage. I don't think I was in /var/lib/rpm... > > I then did an rpm -qa and saw no rpms! [snip] > > I had no backups of /var I didn't think anything important was there. > > Quick, check the file /var/log/rpmpkgs, if it is there make a copy > before it is overwritten. > > The package "rpm" places a script in /etc/cron.daily/rpm, and this > script executes "rpm -qa" (with a few additional options) and places the If it is too late, don't cry yet, check if you have /var/log/rpmpkgs.[1234]. Logrotate (it must be logrotate. Did you have logrotate installed?) creates these backups once a week. For example, on my computer, cd /var/log; ls -l rpmpkgs* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22960 Aug 15 04:04 rpmpkgs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22960 Aug 14 04:10 rpmpkgs.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22952 Aug 7 04:04 rpmpkgs.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22835 Jul 31 04:04 rpmpkgs.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22766 Jul 24 04:05 rpmpkgs.4 You can see that there is one week between successive files. The backups are apparently made every saturday. Cheers, Enrique _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
