Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message news:<95b2pb.igv.ln@news.heiming.de>...
> P.T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > Look for "binstats".
>
> [..]
>
> > # binstats - a Linux/i386 utility to find the number and identity of a.out
> > # 1.00 and ELF binaries, plus their debugging symbols status, setuid
>
> Thx for the tip!
>
> Looks as if you would use a pretty old version:
> $ binstats -v
> binstats-1.08
>
>
>
> Integrity of all installed rpm packages can be checked with something
> like this:
>
> $ for rpm in `rpm -qa`; do echo -e "\n$rpm\n" && rpm -V $rpm;done
>
> (It doesn't look for missing libs though)
>
> Regards

This is great! Thanks everyone who responded. I have been slowly
removing the rpm's so I am not really using rpm anymore, otherwise rpm
would be a great option- I am trying to install/compile each package
from scratch. binstats seems to do exactly what I want.

thanks again.
dn