thanks, great info.
steve

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 11:31, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >   $ su -l root
> >   # rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt
> >   # less rpm-Va.txt 
> 
> ?!? No need for xargs.
> 
> rpm -Va | tee /tmp/verify.log
> 
> 
> Commonly if I'm suspicious of a system, I verify just a few rpms, such as:
> 
> procps
> net-tools
> fileutils
> 
> Takes a lot less time and assures some base utilities might be 
> trustworthy. Then I usually rpm -V rpm or apache to make sure the verify 
> function is still working. Can't be too careful....:)
> 
> 
> Bill Carlson
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