Hi all,
I am kinda puzzled. When and Why do we use md5sum? I've read man pages for mp5sum, but didn't get anything out of it. Please, can someone explain this to me in couple of words.
Thank you all. (1 Reply)
i downloaded a Linux distribution from a FTP site today, and i found there is a file named MD5SUM in the same directory, with the following contents:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
c9a4d963a49e384e10dec9c2bd49ad73 valhalla-SRPMS-disc1.iso
41b03d068e84d2a17147aa27e704f79b ... (1 Reply)
Ok, I run a small script, that restarts a perl script when it fails (it's a very unreliable perl script, but I can't change it, it's crucial, and I don't know perl)
It outputs data into a logfile. Unfortunately, it also regularly hangs. This is a major problem because if it hangs, no data is... (6 Replies)
Is it possible to call the unix command md5sum from within a C program. I am trying to write a C program that scans a directory and computes the MD5Sum of all the files in the directory. Whenever I use md5sum 'filename' I get the error 'md5sum undeclared'. Is there a header file or some library... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I currently have a shell script that takes an RPM and scp's it to a set of remote servers and installs it.
What I would like to be able to do is make the script get the md5sum of the RPM locally (so get the md5sum of the rpm from where im running the script) and then scp the rpm to the... (0 Replies)
hi All:
i write a adduser script in perl , but I don't know how to deal with the password , for it stored as md5. and i don't use the shell
command passwd. give me some advice...thanks (1 Reply)
something strange is that i find the md5sum command in different linux generate different result, for example, i have tried the same file in CentOS and Rhel, The md5 results are different, it is quite headache, who know the tricks? (3 Replies)
Hello,
I need to download multiple files from an FTP server but occasionally they arrive in error so I need to perform an integrity check. I've been attempting to write a bash script that does the following:
Downloads all files including those in sub directories
Perform md5sum using... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I would like to make a script that searches through a SRC folder and copies only files it's never seen before to a DEST folder.
SRC = /user/.phonesync/photos-backup
DST = /usr/.phonesync/photos-new
So basically, I'd start with a:
md5sum /user/.phonesync/photos-backup/* >... (29 Replies)
Hi all,
I have to verify the integrity of a ISO image that is downloaded periodically on my PC. In order to do that, I've written a bash script that use the command md5sum with the aim to match the generated code with the default one created with the SIO image. The problem is that, if I start... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
genhash
genhash(1) General Commands Manual genhash(1)NAME
genhash - md5 hash generation tool for remote web pages
SYNOPSIS
genhash [options] [-s server-address] [-p port] [-u url]
DESCRIPTION
genhash is a tool used for generating md5sum hashes of remote web pages. genhash can use HTTP or HTTPS to connect to the web page. The
output by this utility includes the HTTP header, page data, and the md5sum of the data. This md5sum can then be used within the
keepalived(8) program, for monitoring HTTP and HTTPS services.
OPTIONS --use-ssl, -S
Use SSL to connect to the server.
--server <host>, -s
Specify the ip address to connect to.
--port <port>, -p
Specify the port to connect to.
--url <url>, -u
Specify the path to the file you want to generate the hash of.
--use-virtualhost <host>, -u
Specify the virtual host to send along with the HTTP headers.
--verbose, -v
Be verbose with the output.
--help, -h
Display the program help screen and exit.
--release, -r
Display the release number (version) and exit.
SEE ALSO keepalived(8), keepalived.conf(5)AUTHOR
genhash was written by Alexandre Cassen <acassen@linux-vs.org>.
This man page was contributed by Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Feb 2004 genhash(1)