[ale] SHA1SUM question

[James P. Kinney III]

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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