Re: [CentOS] unverified files in 5.4

On Friday 18 December 2009, ken wrote:

Hey, Gang!

To ensure that a file hasn't been corrupted or tampered with, you can use rpm to verify the package it came from. Well, I found this:

rpm -Vv util-linux .... ........ /usr/bin/cal S.?..... /usr/bin/chfn ........ /usr/bin/chrt S.?..... /usr/bin/chsh

I didn't see this on a clean install, but..

S means size differs from rpmdb entry, ? means the md5sum test could not be done. I'm guessing interference from prelink. If you can, turn it off(*) and re-run the test.

(*) change to "PRELINKING=no" in /etc/sysconfig/prelink and run /etc/cron.daily/prelink.

/Peter