Subject: Re: more problems..
To: Zach Fine <zach@xdsl014.serv.net>
From: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/11/1999 19:13:03
Hmmmm ic ic.
Perhaps the downloading didnt go as it should have been.
But.... try to get the source with sup and see what happens then.....
That should take care of it..... 
I'll take longer to download, but it's an option.
Bye,

Reinoud.

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Zach Fine wrote:

> 
> Now that I've "rm -Rf /usr/src" and restored it from syssrc.tgz
> several times over, and each time been unable to compile, I thought
> I'd better check my copy of syssrc.tgz, but cksum and md5 give wildly
> erratic results:
> 
> xdsl014# cksum syssrc.tgz 
> 2174563477 14234946 syssrc.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum syssrc.tgz
> 4153565937 14234946 syssrc.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum syssrc.tgz
> 908370064 14234946 syssrc.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum syssrc.tgz
> 1709801048 14234946 syssrc.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum syssrc.tgz
> 123999757 14234946 syssrc.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum syssrc.tgz
> 3506730744 14234946 syssrc.tgz
> xdsl014# md5 syssrc.tgz 
> MD5 (syssrc.tgz) = 52cf4eaf3ae4626ce1da82695b813710
> xdsl014# md5 syssrc.tgz
> MD5 (syssrc.tgz) = c53f45caf407cf1a4ce35efce647ee31
> xdsl014# md5 syssrc.tgz
> MD5 (syssrc.tgz) = 18e875a0b71d42f1bd50a8b060946684
> xdsl014# md5 syssrc.tgz
> MD5 (syssrc.tgz) = a8569ac1269d0406415e9123436babb6
> 
> Interestingly enough, cksum appears to come up with stable results for 
> smaller files:
> 
> xdsl014# cksum secr.tgz 
> 2974334067 836858 secr.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum secr.tgz
> 2974334067 836858 secr.tgz
> 
> But for larger files the results are totally wacko:
> 
> xdsl014# cksum xserver.tgz 
> 2717507579 16645498 xserver.tgz
> xdsl014# cksum xserver.tgz
> 934184658 16645498 xserver.tgz
> 
> So, at this point I'm wondering what could possibly explain these
> results. I'm open to anything.
> 
> Thanks for any help or information.
> 
> -Zach Fine
> czyz@serv.net
>