From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 23:38:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E88237B405 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204252B792; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:38:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EC84E18E; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:38:01 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:38:01 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Undisclosed Name Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MD5 Checksum Weirdness Message-ID: <20011218183801.N724@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Undisclosed Name , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from sysop_blast@hotmail.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0600, Undisclosed Name wrote: > Humm, Could someone please tell me why I would be getting a different > checksum each time I run /sbin/md5 on the same file? I am running 4.4 and > have attemted to verify checksum on a few ISO iamges. One of which being > 4.4-install.iso and the results are always wrong but to make matters worse > each time I run md5 on the same file I get a different result? You shouldn't :-) If you diff the files, maybe you can find out what went wrong (maybe non-binary filestransfer?) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message