Hi...
I read the rpm manpage and it says something about md5 checksums there, but I don't know how to pass a given checksum to rpm. In the manpage it says something about a database, but surely the checksum of an update-package wouldn't be in a database, would it?
How to check the md5 checksum of a rpm packages before installing it was written here before. But what is provided by rpm, what you maybe found in the man- page ist the check of already installed packages. In the rpm- database are the original md5 checksums of the installed files stored. Now you can compare this to the actual files with rpm --verify <packagename> So you can see, if some files are modified since installation. You can do this for all installed packages with something like: for i in `rpm -qa`; do rpm --verify $i; done But better install the package seccheck from Marc Heuse, this will do these checks for you regularly. stephan ____________________________________________________________ | .~. s.martin@odn.de | | /V\ fon +49(0)911.2256 03 | | /( )\ fax +49(0)911.2256 06 | | ^`~'^ mobile +49(0)173.380 43 12 | |___________________________________________________________|