Technical Stuff

I ran into problem where a vendor wanted to know all of the patches that installed via RPM to their appliance for a given day. RPM stores that info but I didn't know how to access it easily.  There is probably an easier way to do this, but I put the following command line together and it seems to work: rpm -qai | egrep -3 "Mon 20 Sep|Tue 21 Sep" | egrep "^Name|^Install Date" | sed -e 's/Relocations:.*$//' | sed -e 's/Build Host.*$//' | sed -e 's/   */ /g' | perl -e 'while (defined($line1= )) { $line2 = ; chomp ($line1); chomp ($line2); print "$line1\t\t$line2\n";}' | sort Fun times.

Stuck with winblows on the desktop.  Downloaded an ISO from a vendor and needed to copy to an appliance.  But security is tight except for stuff initiated from the appliance.  Quickest solution was to run SSHD under cygwin: ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key vi /etc/defaults/etc/sshd_config --- sshd_config.orig    2010-09-02 13:30:23.690702700 -0500 +++ sshd_config 2010-09-02 13:24:02.021270400 -0500 @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@  #TCPKeepAlive yes  #UseLogin no  #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes +UsePrivilegeSeparation no  #PermitUserEnvironment no  #Compression delayed  #ClientAliveInterval 0 /usr/sbin/sshd -f /etc/defaults/etc/sshd_config -d