Hosting Tips & Tricks

Verify installed rpm’s

For those who don’t like to RTFM, bellow can find codes for verifying rpm’s:

for e.g.

rpm -qfV /usr/sbin/sshd
S.5….T  c /etc/pam.d/sshd
S.5….T  c /etc/ssh/sshd_config

explains into:

S file Size differs
M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
5 MD5 sum differs
D Device major/minor number mismatch
L readLink(2) path mismatch
U User ownership differs
G Group ownership differs
T mTime differs


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