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Buttle Butkus
Asked: 2012-09-27 19:52:13 +0800 CST

How to find very old history of commands in Linux CentOS?

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One of my questions on here has a lot of views and I have yet to select the best answer. Unfortunately, I cannot remember how I solved my problem.

The problem involved installing some stuff from yum. So I did:

history | grep yum

But I got no results, probably because I ran those commands many months ago, some time around January I think...

Is there any way to dig up that old history?

centos

2 Answers

  1. Try with "yum history list all". Follwoing is a link to yum history details.

    http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sec-Yum-Transaction_History.html

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  2. Best Answer

    You can also view the Yum transaction log in /var/log/yum.log to see which packages were installed/updated/removed over time.

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