Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 05:23, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Because it buys little security wise? > > I can take a rescue disk, a CD with relevant packages on it, boot the > suspect server from the rescue disk, and quickly check md5sums. At > least, if all packages had md5sums I could.
You can just as well just check all the debs. gunzip doesn't take longer, the slowest thing usually is the cdrom. MfG Goswin