Thanks, I figure out:
on freebsd it's command md5
Jie Liang
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan@langille.org]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:17 PM
To: Jie Liang
Cc: 'Bruce Momjian'; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] md5 file
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Jie Liang wrote:
> Forgive me this silly question:
> at ftpsite there always a md5 file followed the tarball file(e.g.)
> postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz
> postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz.md5
> what is this md5 file for? how to use it?
> I guess it's a cksum, but I am not sure.
It is used to verify that postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz has been downloaded
without corruption. How you use postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz.md5 depends upon
your operating system. In FreeBSD, the command is "cksum". The result
should be the sameas that found in postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz.md5.