Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:52:22 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely Message-ID: <20070117085222.GA12934@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:29:57PM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Both the executable and the manpage for md5sum seem to be missing > from this 6.1-RELEASE system, making it difficult to check the > downloaded 6.2-RELEASE and FreeSBIE ISOs. Isn't md5sum supposed > to be part of the base? >=20 > Meanwhile, "apropos md5" yields this line, among others >=20 > gmd5sum(1), md5sum(1) - compute and check MD5 message digest >=20 > but "man md5sum" says >=20 > No manual entry for md5sum >=20 > How did that line get into the apropos, when the corresponding > manpage is (apparently) not installed? I dunno, it doesn't seem to be part of my FreeBSD system (nor has it ever been in FreeBSD, afaik). Are you sure you didnt run that command on a Linux system by mistake? The md5 utility is called md5 in FreeBSD, and "apropos md5" correctly returns for me: md5(1), sha1(1), sha256(1), rmd160(1) - calculate a message-digest fingerpr= int (checksum) for a file Kris --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFrePFWry0BWjoQKURAsBlAJ0R2wS4HDhSKU/BPw4AP3OJNI9HqQCcDl9+ w4VhjOBCwunZrdKgduENDhA= =1iZy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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