From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 14 8:14:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019BD37B71B for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:14:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2EGEf920229; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:14:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:14:40 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Pentchev Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010314101440.A5965@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010313211544.B17733@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103140459.VAA03061@usr05.primenet.com> <20010314084651.A23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010314012132.A91957@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010314112651.C23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <20010314112651.C23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from "Peter Pentchev" on Wed Mar 14 11:26:51 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 14), Peter Pentchev said: > Yes, this is only intended for fenner-like scripts, with the added > benefit that a server-side MD5 checksum calculation would give > individual port maintainers the ability to easily check their own > ports often. Why not just use SIZE and MDTM, then? It serves the same purpose (simply checking to see if the file has changed), and is already implemented in most ftpds. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message