Care to explain the process of running checksums? kernel.org posts their checksums, right? What's the command line to do a checksum of the kernel tarball? Thanks, Rob > On 20010721.1444, Jacob Meuser said ... > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:56:08PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > > > > Should I do checksums on these or something? I just wget the kernel > > whenever a new one comes out. You guys can trust me, right? 8^) > > > You should probably do a checksum to make sure the download didn't > get corrupted. As far as whether or not we trust you ... one should > always do a checksum test against the original author's/distributor's > published checksum(s). The recent compromise of SourceForge is a > good example of why one should not blindly trust third-party-distributed > software. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
