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[LDM #WYX-802311]: difference between two files

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  • Subject: [LDM #WYX-802311]: difference between two files
  • Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:37:34 -0700
Erik,

Glad to hear you figured it out.

> Disregard - I figured it out.  It's simply because the servers are intaking
> the data at slightly different times.  If you run the following commands,
> the files return the same:
> 
> Dos2unix <file1>
> Dos2unix <file2>
> Sort <file1>
> Sort <file2>
> Diff <file1> <file2>
> 
> address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hello - I have 2 servers pulling in data and they are pretty much
> > identical exactly in configuration.  They both use each other as a source
> > in the LDMD.conf file to help with redundancy in the event of reboots, etc.
> >
> > I built a script that compared the contents of the data they are pulling
> > and I noticed the hashes of the files were different.  Using the diff
> > utility I was able to see that while the files are the same size, the
> > chunks of text data appear in different places in the files.
> >
> > I attached a screenshot example of what I'm seeing.
> >
> > Do you know of any reason why this may be happening?  Ideally, it would be
> > great if the file hashes could be the same.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WYX-802311
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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