You can also brute force it.
find / -type f -exec rpm -q -f '{}' ';' | grep "not owned"
On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:35 pm, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 14:40, Howard Bagcat wrote:
> > Quoting "Dela Vega,Maria Aurora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > How would find out what applications were installed outside of
> > > the usual red hat installation package.
> > > Would a find -mtime work?
> >
> > try running /sbin/chkconfig --list
>
> which gives you what servers, daemons and startup programs are
> running. but many applications aren't daemons.
>
> other things to try:
>
> 1. see what RPMs are installed.
>
> rpm -qa
>
> unfortunately that's very verbose. use grep judiciously, or sort,
> or pass it to a file to organize it a bit, e.g.:
>
> rpm -qa | sort | grep -v ^lib > rpmlist.txt
>
> that's still a lot of packages, but it'll help a bit.
>
> you could also just noodle around in /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin,
> /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin to see what's around.
> that's usually not very useful though since there are an incredibly
> number of things installed usually and it's difficult to separate
> the chaff from the wheat.
>
> some software will have been installed from source. most of those
> will be in /opt or /usr/local/[s]bin.
>
> you could look in /etc/crontab to see if anything is started
> regularly. those might be a clue to programs installed manually.
>
> you could also look in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to see what programs are
> started outside the normal /etc/rc.d/init.d system.
>
> tiger
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