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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What is md5sum??? Post 7366 by ghoti on Tuesday 25th of September 2001 12:31:41 PM
Old 09-25-2001
It is a checksum. This is a way to tel lis a file has become corrupted during copying etc...

if the file is identical, then it will have the same md5sum, but if as much as 1 byte of data is changed, then the md5sum is different...

Mainly used to verify copied data
 

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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)
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