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hash-slinger


Information about the package, hash-slinger, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hash-slinger package is designed for, Generate various DNS records such as RFC-4255 SSHFP and RFC-698.


Package Name:

hash-slinger

Summary:

Generate various DNS records such as RFC-4255 SSHFP and RFC-698

Description:

This package contains various tools to generate special DNS records: sshfp Generate RFC-4255 SSHFP DNS records from known_hosts files or ssh-keyscan tlsa Generate RFC-6698 TLSA DNS records via TLS openpgpkey Generate draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey DNS records from OpenPGP keyrings ipseckey Generate RFC-4025 IPSECKEY DNS records on Libreswan IPsec servers This package supersedes 'sshfp' and 'swede'

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

2.7

Release:

1.el6

Size:

37 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for hash-slinger


Control the hash-slinger package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install hash-slinger

This command will install hash-slinger on the server.

yum remove hash-slinger

This command will un-install hash-slinger on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hash-slinger, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove hash-slinger

This command will un-install hash-slinger on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hash-slinger when using the -y flag.

yum update hash-slinger

This command will update hash-slinger to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hash-slinger, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update hash-slinger

This command will update hash-slinger to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hash-slinger when using the -y flag.

yum info hash-slinger

This command will show you core information about the hash-slinger package.

yum deplist hash-slinger

This command will show you the dependencies for hash-slinger. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update hash-slinger

This command will check if there is an update waiting on hash-slinger. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.