Re: file audit

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:26:09AM -0400, Benjamin Black wrote:
> hello everyone,
> 
> recently for some unknown reason my /usr partition was corrupted.
> running it through fsck, i answered 'y' to fix many, many errors.  my
> system now appears to be fine, however there are scattered files that
> had their permissions, sizes, owners, etc. changed to various strange
> things.  as i've been updating packages, i'm finding these files and
> fixing them, but i'm wondering if there might be a faster way.  dpkg
> --audit seems to only check for the existence of files, not their
> correct sizes/permissions/etc.  does anyone know of a way to do a
> thorough audit of all installed packages, short of manually
> uninstalling/reinstalling them?

Have a look at the debsums package. It uses the md5sums.  Permissions
is another matter...

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>