[ale] SHA1SUM question

[Jerry Yu]

John,  I downloaded a month back and my sha1sum does match.
James, I'd like to learn how to 'clean-up' a corrupted download of a single
file using rsync?  Occasionally a large download gets corrupted and it's pia
to restart from scratch...

On 12/5/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> The sha1sum works just like the md5sum but uses a different algorithm.
> If the checksum is bad either the download is bad or the checksum is
> bad. I have had good luck using rsync to "cleanup" a bad download.
>
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:48 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > I downloaded the FC6 i386 DVD image, and also a file of SHA1 sums for
> the
> > various FC6 *.iso files. I ran 'sha1sum' on my file and it wasn't even
> > close.
> > That's a lot of downloading for garbage results!
> >
> > Is there a second check on this in case I made a mistake the first time?
> > It's the first time I use sha1sum so I'ld love to be wrong, but it
> looked
> > pretty simple going in!
> >
> > $%^&%#@!!
> >
> >  - Mills
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