Re: [CentOS] something chmod'ing /dev/null

ken wrote:

And if you updated solely through yum, /var/log/yum.log is a time-stamped list. It's unfortunate that /var/log/rpmpkgs doesn't have the same format. :(

you can install logrpminstalls, which is available in rpmforge. It also has the year in the timestamp, which yum.log lacked last time I looked. Very useful.

[nthierry@tryo ~]$ rpm -q logrpminstalls logrpminstalls-1.0-1.2.el5.rf.x86_64

[nthierry@tryo ~]$ rpm -qi logrpminstalls | tail -n5 Description : This script makes a log file /var/log/rpminstalls which contains timestamps of every rpm which get installed. It's executed by cron every day. The logfile contains lines like: timestamp name-version-release