you manually check the shasum answers against the text file to
insure the iso is correct before burning a cd or dvd. there is no automatic way to do this, correct?
Incorrect. The sha256sum program can automatically check these for you. That's what the -c option does. There are two basic modes of operation for sha256sum. When run without the -c option, the program calculates the sha256 hash of a given file or files and prints those hashes. When run with the -c (or --check) option, the program will read the contents of a file (which is the output of a previous sha256sum) and check whether the hashes listed in the check sum file match the files that are specified in that check sum file. Take a look at the sha256sum man page for details (man sha256sum). Todd I interpret the above as ... sha256sum Fedora-xxx-xxx-CHecksum and the program looks for the iso and calculates the number and checks them with the checksum file for a match or no match? No? If so, this doesn't work. It is the same answer as Steve Searle's and Doc Savage's. I think more detail is needed. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
