On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:26:09AM -0400, Benjamin Black wrote: > hello everyone, > > recently for some unknown reason my /usr partition was corrupted. > running it through fsck, i answered 'y' to fix many, many errors. my > system now appears to be fine, however there are scattered files that > had their permissions, sizes, owners, etc. changed to various strange > things. as i've been updating packages, i'm finding these files and > fixing them, but i'm wondering if there might be a faster way. dpkg > --audit seems to only check for the existence of files, not their > correct sizes/permissions/etc. does anyone know of a way to do a > thorough audit of all installed packages, short of manually > uninstalling/reinstalling them?
Have a look at the debsums package. It uses the md5sums. Permissions is another matter... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>