What is RPM.CGI?

RPM.CGI is a perl cgi script that is a front end to the Red Hat Package Managment (RPM) utility. RPM.CGI allows browsing of the diffent RPMs installed on a system and provides different pages for the different information stored in the RPM database.

RPM.CGI provides away of viewing file checking information like the file size, MD5 checksum and other information that can help you notice at a glance if any vital system files have been malicously tampered with.

For those who just love screen shots here you go.

Download

The latest version is 0.27 it can be downloaded from the link below. This is the first public release of this program.

rpm.cgi-0.27.tar.gz
rpm.cgi-0.27-1.noarch.rpm
rpm.cgi-0.27-1.src.rpm

Please read the README file for more information about RPM.CGI and the Change Log to see the history of changes made.

Links to related sites

• The RPM site - all you ever needed to know about the RPM system
• Red Hat - One of the many distributors of Linux. This is where the RPM began.
• Linux - The Official Linux Site.

Contact

This program has been written by Abdul-Wahid Paterson. Please fell free to email suggestions, requests or anything else relating to making RPM.CGI being more functional.

Mailing List

I have also set-up a mailing list if you are interested in discussing improvements and suggestions. You can join the list by typing:

echo subscribe | mail rpm-cgi-request@webstar.co.uk