Hi, I wrote: > I just remember I've recently seen the issue of md5summing prelinked > binaries being mentioned in one of the threads on this list. That could > explain the discrepancy between the two md5sums. According to the thread "Executables and md5 checksum." exchangable checksums should be generated like this: $ /usr/sbin/prelink -N --verify --md5 /sbin/ethtool 664b71f93f11aac80957f19273288f01 /sbin/ethtool Bye, Leonard.