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Author: Keith Smith
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Subject: Re: Determine when, by who, a centos 6 package was installed.



On 2014-12-31 14:45, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
> On 12/31/2014 09:35 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>> On 2014-12-31 06:13, Keith Smith wrote:
>>> I am trying to determine who installed GIT and when GIT was
>>> installed and what repository it came from. The date stamp on
>>> /usr/share/git-core says Oct 31 16:55. The server did not exist
>>> until early November.
>>
>> /root/install.log should contain the packages installed from the
>> normal installer or the kickstart installer. Things installed
>> after that would be recorded in /var/log/yum.log . However,
>> this'll only tell you when the RPM was installed, not which
>> non-root user was responsible or which repository it came from.
>> You could try "rpm -q -f /usr/share/git-core/templates/description
>> --qf %{NAME}%{INSTALLTIME}%{VENDOR}" and convert the timestamp
>> from seconds-since-epoch to a regular time as well.
>>
>> If the log files and RPM database don't contain anything about a
>> git RPM, then whoever installed it might've done "./configure
>> --prefix=/usr && make && su -c 'make install' ". At that point,
>> you go trawling through users' .bash_history files....
>>
>
> Might be in /var/log/yum.log, and if you archive your
> /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure files, it might be in there, as
> well (assuming someone used su to install).


I was able to determine the package was installed before i recieved the
server.

Thank you for your help!!


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