Scot L. Harris said: > I believe the second column contains the files size as recorded in the > rpm database. However in the above example the file size reported in the > rpm database for /usr/bin/vim is 2071700. The ls -l reports 2077400. The file on your hard drive has been prelinked, so it's MD5SUM (and I guess size) can be different than reported in the RPM database. If you use "rpm -V", it has the logic to take this into account and report if a file has changed. -- William Hooper