[ale] SHA1SUM question

[Jerry Yu]

I knew it can do files as well as directories, but I just didn't know rsync
has intelligence to fetch the 'diff' between the source and a corrupted
download. I assume that's what you meant, right?

On 12/6/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Jerry,
> If you just specify a file, that's all it will do. I've been using it
> lately to spread around config file updates to a list of servers
>
> for server in `cat serverlist`
> do
> rsync -e ssh foo $server:foo
> done
>
> With ssh-keys installed, life is smooth. :)
>
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:20 -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > Thanks, James. I usually use rsync to sync up directories, but didn't
> > know it can efficiently sync up partial/corrupted single file as
> > well.
> >
> > John, my torrent session takes three hours to finish the last 1%, not
> > exactly sure why.
> >
> > On 12/6/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> >         It just a basic rsync process to the server. The caveat is the
> >         server
> >         must support rsync. "rsync <options> <master-file>
> >         <copy-file>". I have
> >         used this on the Fedora mirrors that support rsync with great
> >         success.
> >
> >         The nice thing is if the connection croaks, just run it again.
> >
> >         On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 08:39 -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
> >         > 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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