Paul wrote:
After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it. Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)
S.5....T /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1 missing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir S.5....T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist .M...... c /etc/init.d/hotplug S.5....T /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1
'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5....T)?
I don't remember where I copied this from but it goes:
Verifying installed files vs. rpm:
rpm -v package_name
When verifying a package, RPM produces output only if there is a verification failure. When a file fails verification, the format of the output is a bit cryptic, but it packs all the information you need into one line per file. Here is the format:
SM5DLUGT c <file>
Where:
* S is the file size.
* M is the file's mode.
* 5 is the MD5 checksum of the file.
* D is the file's major and minor numbers.
* L is the file's symbolic link contents.
* U is owner of the file.
* G is the file's group.
* T is the modification time of the file.
* c appears only if the file is a configuration file. This is handy for quickly identifying config files, as they are very likely to change, and therefore, very unlikely to verify successfully.
* <file> is the file that failed verification. The complete path is listed to make it easy to find.
It's unlikely that every file attribute will fail to verify, so each of the eight attribute flags will only appear if there is a problem. Otherwise, a "." will be printed in that flag's place.
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