Have you done straight (non-hashed) content-comparison of any of
these files? Are they actually gratuitously different in content,
or are they just truncated on one system? MD5sums are effectively
dependant on file-size
The files were the same size but differed in various locations
I'm looking at some supposedly identical CentOS5.3 systems that are
behaving strangely and while grasping at straws I generated lists of
the MD5 sums of all the files on the root partitions and I'm seeing
differences in the on-disk images of things like /sbin/mount and
/lib64/libblkid.so.1.0 that
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm seeing differences in the on-disk images of things like /sbin/mount and
/lib64/libblkid.so.1.0 that AFAIK are supposed to be entirely static.
Use rpm -qif /lib64/libblkid.so.1.0 to identify the exact
Michael ODonnell writes:
I'm looking at some supposedly identical CentOS5.3 systems that are
behaving strangely and while grasping at straws I generated lists of
the MD5 sums of all the files on the root partitions and I'm seeing
differences in the on-disk images of things like /sbin/mount
I'm running an rpm --verify --all pass on those machines right now and
it's showing quite a few indications of unexpected differences based
on the info recorded in the RPM database. Ben is right; that's a very
nice feature of RPM. When I captured the output in a file and then said
things like
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
...so that system seems to have suffered disk corruption or compromise;
I'm assuming the former given the large number of affected files but I
guess I can't rule out the latter.
Of course, if it is the
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
...so that system seems to have suffered disk corruption or compromise ...
Certainly some kind of corruption or compromise. There are other
kinds of corruption beyond a bad disk, though. Logical corruption
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes:
I'm running an rpm --verify --all pass on those machines right now and
it's showing quite a few indications of unexpected differences based
on the info recorded in the RPM database. Ben is right; that's a very
nice feature of RPM. When I
