---------- quoting Andrew Gaffney ----------
> Due to a recent hack into my Slackware server, now my Gentoo server, I
> want to write a script that scans all binaries, or even all files,
> computes their MD5SUM, and compares it to what portage calculated it to
> be when it was installed. Does something already exist like this?

You could take tripwire, which is in portage. I use it on my server, it's 
very powerful. Beside checking for changes in file's MD5SUM, it can check 
for changes in file's inodes and many other things.

allrounder root # emerge search tripwire
Searching...
[ Results for search key : tripwire ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  app-admin/tripwire
      Latest version available: 2.3.1.2
      Latest version installed: 2.3.1.2
      Size of downloaded files: 2,074 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.tripwire.org/
      Description: Open Source File Integrity Checker and IDS

HTH! Greetings, Matthias

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