Network & Academic Computing Services Departamental Computing Support Stamp What is stamp? stamp is used to generate a description of what a machine looks like, at a given point in time. check-stamp is used to compare two stamps, outputing a list of differences. What does DCS use stamp for? Generate a list of changes made to a machine's system directories, since the time the machine was installed. This takes a lot of the guess-work out of performing upgrades. Execute stamp, add a software package, then check-stamp. This allows us to see the changes a vendor's installation script is making to a machine. Stamp distribution documentation the previous stamp page dcs@uci.edu Network & Academic Computing Services > Support > SysAdmin Updated: October 2, 2003 University of California, Irvine