[sclug] Victim of unprovoked power pailures

Alex Butcher lug at assursys.co.uk
Fri Dec 16 11:30:27 UTC 2005


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Roland Turner (SCLUG) wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:25 +0000, Alex Butcher wrote:
>
>> Well, before panicing, I'd start by using dpkg to verify all the files in
>> the package that provides the 'sleep' binary.
>
> How do you use dpkg to do that? (Get a copy of the deb, extract, and
> compare?)

No idea; I use Red Hat, and therefore rpm, but I presume that equivalent
functionality is available in dpkg also.

> - Raz

Best Regards,
Alex.
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