<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I am using FC3 and notice very wired behavior. The rpm -q --dump output is inconsistent with actual file attribute. # rpm -q --dump glibc | grep lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so 1451615 1103537616 3f269651d6f0953ce3f753760efa5026 0100755 root root 0 0 0 X # ls -l /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1454835 Dec 20 02:13 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so # md5sum /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so d6abef51fef1c5df35398f5fff34b714 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so The funny thing is that rpm -qV glibc doesn't report any md5sum inconsistent. It takes me 2 days and finally find out the different file size and different md5sum is caused by prelink daily cornjob ( /etc/cron.daily/prelink ). I wonder why md5sum and file size are different from rpm -q --dump output? Can someone explain to me? Kin Kin </body> </html>