[Wolves] Question....

[Andy Smith]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:56:03PM +0100, David Morley wrote:
> I can't  find a way to do this can you help please.  I want to check
> the md5sum of an online image.  I know that there are md5sum's for
> most images but they are often called different things.  I am
> basically writing a script that downloads an image to a set place then
> checks the image online with the one you have downloaded, but I need
> to find out how to check the online images md5sum in order to do this,
> is there a way?

If you mean that the remote file has not already got an md5sum
published for it then, no, there is no way to generate one remotely
unless you can ssh in and do it, or else they have provided some
other way to generate them.

Cheers,
Andy
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