Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Locked out of RaQ3

[Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, Jim Roberts <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I am thinking, not too hard though, of writing a perl script to check the
> configuration of a machine; for example, it could have a list of files and
> what their permissions should be; another list of files that should be
> present, etc.
> 
> Is there such a thing now? It would be simple enough to do, but it would
> only be as good as the list of problems we know in advance might come up.

Look at the "rpm -V" command (and its sub-options).  Since Cobalt uses
Red Hat packages you can use the rpm command to verify permissions and
ownership and do MD5 hash checking to verify the contents) of files on
the system that were installed from RPMs (I believe almost all of them
that come with the Cobalts are covered this way).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Information Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.