Colin Watson wrote: > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about this under CAVEATS.
Another neat trick you can pull if you have the CD you installed from or a local mirror or something is to yank the tarball out of each deb and use tar to verify it against what's on your disk. There is a simple command line that Jim Dennis came up with to do this, but I've lost it. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
