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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
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To: Karol Babioch <karol@babioch.de>
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On 16.01.2013 17:30, Karol Babioch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 16.01.2013 13:00, schrieb Matthias Schniedermeyer:
> > My M.O. is to make MD5(*) sums of just about every file.
> 
> What scripts and/or software do you use? I'm planning to do something
> very similar, but wanted to make use of a file integrity checker. I
> haven't looked too extensively, but the ones I came up with seemed to be
> overkill.
> 
> I'm looking for something very basic, just enough to detect file
> corruption and notify me by email or something like that.

The software is a perl-script that i developed myself. Md5sum wasn't 
"intelligent" enough for me(*) and i didn't really look if there was any 
existing software. So i began with a small script around "Digest::MD5" 
and it grew from there. The script (i call it "md5tool.pl") is mostly 
generic, altough there are a few things specific for my environment 
hardcoded into it.




*:
For e.g. the script also records mtime, size and filetype with x/y-sizes 
for a few image-types.

With the mtime/size information the script can check if a file has been 
changed and update the stored MD5-sum.


-- 

Matthias