md5sum on ps binary

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On 12/12/06, Jeremy Eder <jeder at invision.net> wrote:
> I have a number of RHEL4 Update3 web servers.
>
> All were installed at the same time, and are kept up to date via RHN.
>
> My question is why the output of md5sum is as follows:
>
> root at web1: ~ # md5sum /bin/ps
> 3123a3d974c68de301114b5eb9b09b73  /bin/ps
>
> root at web2: ~ # md5sum /bin/ps
> 967c0fa08867a8031ccd4d28744d7a0f  /bin/ps
>
> root at web3: ~ # md5sum /bin/ps
> c22815c887f4d0847c6253cb909b6870  /bin/ps
>
>
> All 3 servers show the following
>
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 66416 Nov 21  2005 /bin/ps
>
> Can anyone see what would cause this ?

prelinking most likely.

You can use the verify option to rpm to check if they are correct.

John