Re: md5sum discrepencies

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Ryan wrote:
> Hi all!  I've recently installed and yum updated 2 indentical boxes, and
> for fun and good measure I was running md5sums to see if the updates
> worked correctly on both.  However:
>
> [root tsuji etc]# md5sum /usr/sbin/sshd
> 61759cb28ff270f794a2e7efc15cb965  /usr/sbin/sshd
>
> [root eri proc]# md5sum /usr/sbin/sshd
> 1773adfda131e2496fafd898747245e2  /usr/sbin/sshd
>
> Any ideas why?  This also concerns me:
>
> [root tsuji etc]# md5sum /bin/ls
> aad0775ac64588d61d258fabd2a777e1  /bin/ls
>
> [root eri proc]# md5sum /bin/ls
> 5101a32ed2e5680ccf49190bb42f0a7b  /bin/ls
>
> Both boxes are dual homed K6 450Mhz.  Anyone have any suggestions?  I
> would figure they should all be the same, but I've seen stranger things. 
> Anyone know what the sums should be, or can point me in the direction to
> find out?

This is probably a prelink issue. Use "rpm -V" to verify the integrity 
of your packages as that is prelink-aware.

Paul.