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snoopy


Information about the package, snoopy, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The snoopy package is designed for, A preload library to send shell commands to syslog.


Package Name:

snoopy

Summary:

A preload library to send shell commands to syslog

Description:

Snoopy is designed to aid a sysadmin by providing a log of commands executed. Snoopy is completely transparent to the user and applications. It is linked into programs to provide a wrapper around calls to execve(). Logging is done via syslog.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.7.10

Release:

1.el6

Size:

16 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for snoopy


Control the snoopy package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install snoopy

This command will install snoopy on the server.

yum remove snoopy

This command will un-install snoopy on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove snoopy, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove snoopy

This command will un-install snoopy on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove snoopy when using the -y flag.

yum update snoopy

This command will update snoopy to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove snoopy, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update snoopy

This command will update snoopy to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove snoopy when using the -y flag.

yum info snoopy

This command will show you core information about the snoopy package.

yum deplist snoopy

This command will show you the dependencies for snoopy. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update snoopy

This command will check if there is an update waiting on snoopy. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.