On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:35, Avi Schwartz wrote: > 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. >
many thanks, just what I was after.
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