Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > check the binaries tooo... > > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > > > > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would > tell me if the md5sum had been changed from the original package. Does dpkg > have a similar funcitonality? I couldn't find mention of it in the man page. > > Right now I'm fiddling with md5sum, but if I understand correctly, that only > tells me the md5sum of the current file, it can't verify that the md5 sum is > "correct" (goes back to the "it's smart, not magic" argument).
bash$ man debsums bash$ dpkg --search `which top` procps: /usr/bin/top bash$ debsums -s procps Any output could be a problem. Of course this assumes that the listed md5sums have not been tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
