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that have been changed since installation. rpm uses eight character symbols to give
some hints about the following changes:
Table 8.2
RPM Verify Options
MD5 check sum
5
File size
S
Symbolic link
L
Modication time
T
Major and minor device numbers
D
Owner
U
Group
G
Mode (permissions and le type)
M
In the case of conguration les, the letter c is printed. For example, for changes to
/etc/wgetrc (wget package):
rpm -V wget
S.5....T c /etc/wgetrc
The les of the RPM database are placed in /var/lib/rpm. If the partition /usr
has a size of 1 GB, this database can occupy nearly 30 MB, especially after a complete
update. If the database is much larger than expected, it is useful to rebuild the database
with the option --rebuilddb. Before doing this, make a backup of the old database.
The cron script cron.daily makes daily copies of the database (packed with gzip)
and stores them in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb. The number of copies is controlled
by the variable MAX_RPMDB_BACKUPS (default: 5) in /etc/sysconfig/backup.
The size of a single backup is approximately 1 MB for 1 GB in /usr.
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