Re: grep & tar segfault - broken system

[Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:45:38PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> This is all too strange and I'd like to know if there is anywhere I can 
> find known good md5sums of Debian package binaries (not of the packages 
> themselves - of the executables in'em). Otherwise, it's impossible to 
> know if one has a cracked system, or is simply experiencing a "testing" 
> glitch...

Don't know if this'll help, but here are md5's from two machines with
different versions of those utilities:

jrennie@karhu:~$ dpkg -l findutils | grep ^ii
ii  findutils      4.1.20-4       utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an
jrennie@karhu:~$ dpkg -l grep | grep ^ii
ii  grep           2.5.1.ds1-3    GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
jrennie@karhu:~$ dpkg -l tar | grep ^ii
ii  tar            1.13.93-4      GNU tar
jrennie@karhu:~$ md5sum /usr/bin/find
5e8f27978c90c500b213f67ec759db2a  /usr/bin/find
jrennie@karhu:~$ md5sum /bin/grep 
03e99cc8532668c2cf198c3a6795cc26  /bin/grep
jrennie@karhu:~$ md5sum /bin/tar 
4a1f9c9a1679faaf66073c96f1435284  /bin/tar

jrennie@desk:~$ dpkg -l findutils | grep ^ii
ii  findutils      4.1.20-5       utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an
jrennie@desk:~$ dpkg -l grep | grep ^ii
ii  grep           2.5.1.ds1-4    GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
jrennie@desk:~$ dpkg -l tar | grep ^ii
ii  tar            1.13.93-4      GNU tar
jrennie@desk:~$ md5sum /usr/bin/find
f88ace1e9fd6f456cfff178e29189c32  /usr/bin/find
jrennie@desk:~$ md5sum /bin/grep
3e39a37478852cbc407a48cbb87742b1  /bin/grep
jrennie@desk:~$ md5sum /bin/tar
4a1f9c9a1679faaf66073c96f1435284  /bin/tar

Well, tar's the same, but the other two differ.

Jason

P.S. Hello!  From a fellow CMU alum ('99 CS).