From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 2:23:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1594D37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-6.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E08643E6A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D6246E800224144 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:23:17 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (80.14.10.42) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D49FF790083873B for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:23:17 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7Q9P6AI042132 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:25:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: (from michael@localhost) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7Q9P5vF042089; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:25:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) X-Authentication-Warning: ketanu.dyndns.org: michael set sender to ketanu@wanadoo.fr using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A FAQ about FreeBSD download References: <000601c24ccf$9c2fba30$0f05280a@connetro.com> <20020826073506.GC8948@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <005801c24cd9$f72d98d0$0f05280a@connetro.com> From: Ketanu Organization: (none) Date: 26 Aug 2002 11:25:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <005801c24cd9$f72d98d0$0f05280a@connetro.com> Message-ID: <877kie7z0v.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Razvan Sandu" writes: > Please excuse my ignorance on this subject, but would you please explain how > should I do that, exactly ? On Linux, I usually use rpms and the check is > done automatically ... You can calculate the MD5 hash value for your downloaded files with the `md5(1)' utility. Maybe are some FTP client aware to `CHECKSUM.MD5' or likely named files, and do the check themselves. -- Ketanu - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message