Re: redhat-list Digest, Vol 144, Issue 1

2017-04-24 Thread S Sai Krishna Prasad
Hi Jonathan, I am using the following version of rpm: rpm-5.4.14-r0.0.corei7_64 Regards, Sai Krishna On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:31 PM wrote: > Send redhat-list mailing list submissions to > redhat-list@redhat.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > h

Re: Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file

2017-04-24 Thread Jonathan Billings
What version of 'rpm' are you using? What's the output of 'rpm -q rpm'? On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:17 AM, S Sai Krishna Prasad wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to know what is the use of log. file that is present in > the directory /var/lib/rpm/log/. I saw that when I rebuild the rpm datab

Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file

2017-04-24 Thread S Sai Krishna Prasad
Hi All, I would like to know what is the use of log. file that is present in the directory /var/lib/rpm/log/. I saw that when I rebuild the rpm database using the command "rpm --rebuilddb" a new file is created and the older one is removed but the size of the file remains the same. I would lik