Tag: Fedora

List rpm package content To list the contents of a package just run the command # rpm -ql packagename Example # rpm -ql nmap /usr/bin/nmap /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70 /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING...
Rotate logs manually Today I had to manually rotate a couple of logs since they had generated a filesize of over 1.8GB of pure text. This was done by issuing the command <br /> logrotate...
Upgrade from Fedora Core 7 to Core 8 This is the steps I took to upgrade a running Fedora Core 7 installation to Core 8 using yum from the command line. Please note that live upgrades are not recommended by the...
Query RPM database/packages and list their architecture If you use the –queryformat argument with rpm it is possible to query RPMs for different architectures installed# rpm -qa --queryformat %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH}\n | grep...