Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:21, Bill Perkins wrote:
>jludwig wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:58, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>>
>>>Prelink is used to modify ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamiclly linked
>>>binaries to reduce startup time. Check out the man page for prelink to
>>>get more details.
>>>
>>>The changes you describe are consistent with prelink.
>
>Yes- after perusing the man page, that makes some sense. However, where
>did prelink get triggered from? I sure didn't run it.
>
Depends on how you run the system. By default there should be a cron
job in /etc/cron.daily called prelink. If your system runs 24x7 it
should run at least once a day.
Interesting. /var/log/prelink.log doesn't leave any timestamps;
apparently, it's part of the base package, but for some reason, it
hasn't made itself apparent (at least to tripwire) until now. For the
most part, the system runs 24/7, with the occasional reboot into
Slackware for an hour or two; had this system operating since beginning
of September. Fedora has some interesting quirks, to say the least!
Still easier to deal with than Microsoft :)
>>You could try something like;
>>--> rpm -vV -a > /root/rpm_verify
>>Then try less the file /root/rpm_verify.
>
>Cool! I've had it running for a few hours now (this is a 1GHz PIII of
>some sort, with 256M RAM, so it's not the fastest processor on the
>block), and the output looks reasonable so far. I've just switched to
>FC4 from Slackware, and I don't know all the ins and outs of rpm, yum,
>and up2date, so even though I've been using Linux for 10 years now, I'm
>still on a learning curve (which is why I jumped to Linux in the first
>place). Thanks for all the help, I'll let you know what I find.
It is a constant learning curve, always new things to learn. And
usually just when you get a handle on one service it gets changed. :)
Sounds like Microsoft ;)
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