On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > Now this IS the answer. I just downgraded one of my systems to > > sysvinit 2.69-1, rebooted, and the corruption seems to be gone. > > Few weeks ago, my corruption occured with sysvinit-2.69-1. I have been > having this same package since December 8. For some unknown reason, > few weeks ago my wtmp _stoped_ getting corrupted.
i haven't had any wtmp corruption problems since downgrading to 2.69-1. those systems which i haven't downgraded and rebooted yet are still getting corruption, those which i have aren't getting any. > And I have one dpkg request: An option that tells which packages were > intalled since a certain date, i.g., % dpkg -older 2/28/97 . it's not a feature (documented or otherwise) of dpkg but i've found that you can do an 'ls -alrt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list' to get a rough listing of what days packages were upgraded. (note, this is the date the package was actually installed/upgraded on the target system, *NOT* the date that the package was released) on my system, for example: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85 Nov 17 1995 untex.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 Apr 16 1996 giftrans.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 1996 libc.list [...many lines deleted...] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 Mar 15 13:39 tetex-bin.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153 Mar 15 13:40 pico.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 399 Mar 15 13:40 pine.list it shouldn't be too difficult to use write a script using find to build a list of packages modified less than x days old. something like: #! /bin/sh # dpkg_age: list packages installed on system before/since # $1 days. # # $1 = days. This is the find mtime argument so can be +, -, # or unsigned. see find(1) for details. # # BUGS: dpkg_age is a really crappy name but it's the only thing i # could think of at the time :-) find /var/lib/dpkg/info -mtime $1 -name "*.list" -not -empty \ -exec basename \{\} .list \; the "-not -empty" excludes empty .list files...i.e. "purged" packages. "removed" packages with conf files will still show up in the list because the .list file will not be empty. e.g. to display all installed packages on the system which haven't been updated for 320 days or more: $ dpkg_age +320 rc knews cached [...several lines deleted...] xloadimage xcal xkeycaps example 2: to display all packages which have been installed or upgraded in the last 6 days. $ dpkg_age -6 file pine samba [...several lines deleted...] libpwdb0 libpam-util libpam0 variations on this theme will probably give you what you want. enjoy. craig ps: this really is undocumented dpkg behaviour. don't count on it. it may change. it may not work. if it breaks you own both pieces plus the disclaimer "what do you expect when you go making assumptions about the files under /var/lib/dpkg"