22 Aug
2019
22 Aug
'19
19:20
On 22/08/2019 20.13, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > Am Samstag, 17. August 2019, 10:55:44 schrieb Carlos E. R.: >> There was a service that run on boot that searched for those files and >> told the admin, but it has been removed. I think that going back more >> years, it emailed root as well. >> >> Now, you have to run "rpmconfigcheck" manually. I documented this on the >> wiki. > Well, the service does still exist: > $ systemctl status rpmconfigcheck > * rpmconfigcheck.service - Scan for unresolved .rpmnew, .rpmorig, and .rpmsave > files > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpmconfigcheck.service; disabled; > vendor preset: disabled) > Active: inactive (dead) > > (it is disabled by default, but that's the case since years if not a decade, > AFAIK) Only after systemd deployment. Previous to that the default was enabled. > > It doesn't notify anybody though AFAICS, the output should go to the > journal/syslog and should also be visible if you run "systemctl status > rpmconfigcheck" (might be necessary to do that as root though). It goes to a file. > I don't think it ever supported sending emails, though it might be possible to > configure journald or the used syslog daemon to do that. I remember that long ago root got emails about some configuration changes, but I do not remember if this was one of them. Searching on my root (mail) folder I see them: +++....................... Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:54:40 +0200 From: rootTo: root@telcontar.valinor Subject: rpm config chech run Please check the following files (see /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck): /etc/clamd.conf.rpmnew /etc/init.d/jexec.rpmsave /etc/init.d/jexec.rpmsave /etc/logrotate.d/apache2.rpmnew /etc/pam.d/common-password.rpmnew /etc/pam.d/common-session.rpmnew /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf.rpmnew /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg.rpmsave /etc/updatedb.conf.rpmnew /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc.rpmnew .......................++- Only that year. I can't say if it was my doing or it came from the distro. > > I had a quick look at the current rpmconfigcheck script itself, it does add a > message to /var/log/update-messages, which would be displayed by YaST/zypper > if you do updates I think (it will not be run during updates though, no idea > if that was different in the past). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)