How To Install recap on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install recap on Rocky Linux 8.
What is recap
This program is intended to be used as a companion for the reporting provided by sysstat. It will create a set of reports summarizing hardware resource utilization. The script also provides optional reporting on Apache, MySQL, and network connections.
We can use yum or dnf to install recap on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install recap.
Install recap on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install recap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install recap
Install recap on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install recap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install recap
How To Uninstall recap on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the recap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove recap
recap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/recap.conf
/usr/lib/recap/core/fdisk
/usr/lib/recap/core/mysql
/usr/lib/recap/core/netstat
/usr/lib/recap/core/ps
/usr/lib/recap/core/pstree
/usr/lib/recap/core/resources
/usr/lib/recap/core/send_mail
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/docker_top
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/http_status
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/kernel_cmd
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/redis
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/system_locks
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-enabled
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap-onboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap-onboot.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recaplog.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recaplog.timer
/usr/sbin/recap
/usr/sbin/recaplog
/usr/sbin/recaptool
/usr/share/doc/recap
/usr/share/doc/recap/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/recap/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/recap
/usr/share/licenses/recap/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/recap.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/recap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/recaplog.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/recaptool.8.gz
/var/log/recap
/var/log/recap/backups
/var/log/recap/snapshots
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install recap on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.