Hello all, and particularly Gurus!
I have a question about what I see as a result of the "sum" command in
Solaris 2.5.1
A user has reported to me that the checksum is being reported
differently each time he runs the checkum on a single file.
File is:
461289984 Aug 5 19:11 fred-u4
(It's a compressed workstation backup file)
Here's what he saw:
> sum fred-u4
38476 900957 fred-u4
> sum fred-u4
1726 900957 fred-u4
Here's what >I< saw from the same command:
> sum fred-u4
50041 900957 fred-u4
> sum fred-u4
32163 900957 fred-u4
and with the "alternate" option:
> sum -r fred-u4
25905900957 fred-u4
(I assume there's a field overrun and this is really "25905 900957")
> sum -r fred-u4
53337900957 fred-u4 ( 53337 900957 )
So to ME, (the man page wasn't specific about this) the checksum is the
second number, and the first number is probably a seed for the
algorythm.
Am I wrong, or is the "sum" program giving me bad data?
We rely heavily on these backups, and an inconsistant checksum is
disturbing.
Any thoughts, ideas, facts?
TIA!
-- Jim Harmon The Telephone Connection jim@telecnnct.com Rockville, Maryland
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