On Manjaro, osquery is in the repositories by default. This installs an application if it is not already installed on your system and upgrades it if it is.
#Query osquery on another machine install
Locate the file on your hard drive and use the rpm package to install it. CD Downloads sudo dpkg -i osquery_4.6.0-1.linux_bįor Fedora, download the “.rpm” file. Replace the name of the file in our example with the name of the one you are downloading. Change directory to the "Downloads" directory, then use dpkg command to install the ".deb" file.
This will probably be downloaded to your "Downloads" directory. This is not a problem, we can download the installation packages from the osquery download page.įor Ubuntu, download the “.deb” package. Most Linux distributions do not include osquery in their official repositories. We'll take a look at using osquery interactively. The excellent documentation is the first place to turn if you want to explore its many other options. It contains much more than what can be covered in an introductory article. osquery is a very flexible and sophisticated application. Running it as a daemon allows you to schedule queries. Osquery can be used interactively, or it can be controlled through a configuration file and run as a daemon. Data from tables can be retrieved using SQL (SQL) commands. The database contains many tables containing different categories of information. It gathers a huge amount of information about your Linux computer and makes it accessible as a pseudo-database. The osquery app is a free, open-source program from the osquery foundation.
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