-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > check the binaries tooo... > > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > > > > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would > tell me if the md5sum had been changed from the original package. Does dpkg > have a similar funcitonality? I couldn't find mention of it in the man page. Of sorts, although you'd have to trust that the rpm binary *and* the rpm database weren't screwed with. > Right now I'm fiddling with md5sum, but if I understand correctly, that only > tells me the md5sum of the current file, it can't verify that the md5 sum is > "correct" (goes back to the "it's smart, not magic" argument). - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE50syX/ZTSZFDeHPwRAp4IAKCTTn7RlvBwXsQoUvT+r+VzeytuYwCfW3fP XHG/BmccE5RlZR5cXD+0Ols= =DHir -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----