request for checksums

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Ian,

The following request sounds reasonable, and I ran the command for him,
but I thought you might want to use md5sum in the long term. Would you
like to take care of the script to do this on "master?"

	Thanks

	Bruce 

> From: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> 	You are the maintainers of ftp.debian.org, right?
> Would it be possible for to do execute the following command
> at the top of the debian FTP area (and, ideally, put it in crontab):
> 
> 	find . -type f | xargs sum > checksums
> 
> 	This would be extremely useful to me in making sure that
> the replacement Debian CD that I am cutting has no more corrupted
> files.  I have already remirrored your FTP area.
> 
> Adam J. Richter				  Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
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