[plug] Technical Assistance

[mbailey at ois.com.au]

Thanx Dave.
I will try that out.

Regards,
Mark Bailey

-----Original Message-----
From: David Griffiths [mailto:griffith at environ.wa.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 10:04
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Technical Assistance



Mark wrote:

>Thanx Matt,
>I understand what you mean but I really would like
>to try and avoid that if I can.
>
>It is not an old kernel. It is Redhat 6.1.

Mark re your comment about modprobe not being an elf object,
a quick and easy way to verify that your modprobe is not
corrupted is to do an

  rpm -V -v modutils

The -V does a verify on all files in the package, including dependencies
and checksums. If it's corrupted you will get something like

 S.5....T  /sbin/modprobe

where the S means that the size has changed, 5 means MD5 checksum
doesn't match the database (ie corrupted) etc (see man page for more
details).


cheers,


Dave.



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