different checksums on coreutils binaries

kaisung_at_gmail.com
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: 19 Sep 2005 15:20:42 -0700

Hi,

I installed RHEL4 on several machines using the same install CDs. I
noticed that several of the binaries from the coreutils package (i.e.
/bin/cat, /bin/mv) all have different md5 checksums on each machine.
How is this possible? Is there something during the rpm install process
that modifies the binaries? The file size seems to remain the same
across machines.

Thanks,
-Kai

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