Re: wired md5 hashing problem

What do you get when you type

md5sum backup.tar.bz2?

- Adam

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 16:56 +0200, Matthias Güntert wrote:
> Hello list-members
>
> i am in the process of writing a python script to backup my data. Now I
> would like to implement md5/sha1 hashes.
>
> # do md5 fingerprinting
> if config.get("global", "crc") == "md5":
> m = md5.new()
> # open the file
> f = open(fname, "rb")
> while 1:
> block = f.read(1024*1024)
> if not block:
> break
> # generate the hash
> m.update(block)
> f.close()
>
> # write the results properly formated to a file
> fd = file(fname + ".md5", "w")
> fd.write(m.hexdigest())
> fd.write(" " + fname + "\n")
> fd.close()
>
>
> mguentert@uranos > md5sum -c backup.tar.bz2.md5
> /fileservice/temp/backup.tar.bz2: FAILED
> md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
>
> mguentert@uranos > cat backup.tar.bz2.md5
> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /fileservice/temp/backup.tar.bz2
>
> so the format should be okay, but whats wrong with my piece of code?!
>
> Greetings
>
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Received on Sun Apr 30 21:14:01 2006