sha1sum output: what does it mean?

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Jun 15 00:37:23 UTC 2005


Leopoldo Olmos wrote:

>I've got the following output after running sha1sum on my recently
>downloaded (BitTorrent) FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso:
>
>FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso: OK
>  
>

If you just downloaded the DVD image, the rest will naturally give you 
these errors. I downloaded 5 iso files and the DVD plus source code 
files showed 5 out of 5 not readable. The downloaded ones are what 
should actually check out. If you did not download the other ten, you 
are fine.

>sha1sum: FC4-x86_64-SRPMS-disc1.iso: No such file or directory
>...
>FC4-x86_64-rescuecd.iso: FAILED open or read
>sha1sum: WARNING: 10 of 11 listed files could not be read
>
>What does it mean? 
>Should I download the file again because of the missing files?
>  
>
The DVD should be an alright image.

Jim

>Leopoldo Olmos
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