Re: Verifying inode number using rpm and ls

2008-12-18 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, John Horne wrote: [Apologies for cross-posting from the opensuse list] Hello, I was wondering if someone could tell me why there is a difference in the reported inode number of a file from the 'ls' command, and from the 'rpm' command. For example, using the /usr/bin/wget

Re: Verifying inode number using rpm and ls

2008-12-18 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 20:18 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, John Horne wrote: [Apologies for cross-posting from the opensuse list] Hello, I was wondering if someone could tell me why there is a difference in the reported inode number of a file from the 'ls' command,

Verifying inode number using rpm and ls

2008-12-13 Thread John Horne
[Apologies for cross-posting from the opensuse list] Hello, I was wondering if someone could tell me why there is a difference in the reported inode number of a file from the 'ls' command, and from the 'rpm' command. For example, using the /usr/bin/wget file, I get: ls -i /usr/bin/wget

Re: Verifying inode number using rpm and ls

2008-12-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
John Horne john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk writes: I realise that prelinking will cause the inode number to change, but even without prelinking the numbers reported are not the same. All the other inodes for the supporting txt files also differ, so it is not a case of just the executable's inode