Checking installation accuracy (pkgchk)

Use pkgchk(1M) to check the integrity of a package after it has been installed on your system. pkgchk determines whether an object has been modified by software or other actions since its installation.

pkgchk performs two kinds of checks: file attributes (the permissions, ownership, and security attributes of a file, and major/minor numbers for block or character special devices) and the file contents (the size, checksum, and modification date of a file). By default, the command checks both the file attributes and the file contents. See the pkgchk(1M) manual page for complete details about available options.

To check the integrity of a package after it has been installed on your system, enter:

pkgchk -n pkg_name

The -n option indicates that volatile files (files which in the normal course of operation are modified, such as log files) should not be checked. Use -n for post-installation checking.

To check the packages that comprise a set, run pkginfo(1) to determine the name of each package in the set, and then run pkgchk for the individual packages.

Other options to pkgchk:

• You can name more than one package on the command line by separating the package names with spaces.

• You can check specific pathnames, instead of all components of a package, by using the -p option to name the paths you want to check. If pkgchk is not given any name at all (no package names or pathnames), then it checks the entire contents of your system. To name more than one pathname, separate the names by commas (with no white space).