Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:43:27 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrative tag a possibility? Message-ID: <3B03C76F.4403BC31@math.missouri.edu> References: <00df01c0dec9$ef270b00$0b01000a@apollo>
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Stewart Morgan wrote: > > Wasn't there a discussion on something like this ages ago? > I seem to recall somebody suggesting MD5 checksums to see if a file > has changed or not and acting acordingly. > > If you're worried about maintaining a database of checksums, > why not place it in the file itself. Of course somebody'll mention > recursion: if you grep -v CHECKSUM | md5 and compare with grep CHECKSUM, > you've got something that works and is easy to maintain. > That seems a little dangerous - perhaps some of the files will have md5 appearing in other lines for other reasons, and that would mess up this simple grep. Perhaps a more complicated tag in the file would be more appropriate. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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