Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:36:30 -0000 From: "Martin Tournoij" <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely Message-ID: <op.tmaffjcgkagcwh@phong.carpetsmoker.net> In-Reply-To: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:29:57 -0000, <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? > > Meanwhile, "apropos md5" yields this line, among others > > gmd5sum(1), md5sum(1) - compute and check MD5 message digest > > but "man md5sum" says > > No manual entry for md5sum > > How did that line get into the apropos, when the corresponding > manpage is (apparently) not installed? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum', and it is part of the base. On my system (6.2-RC2) apropos md5 | grep sum: md5(1), sha1(1), sha256(1), rmd160(1) - calculate a message-digest fingerprint (checksum) for a file. Not sure why apropos md5 shows md5sum and gmd5sum (g for gnu?), maybe it's from a port. I also suspect that gmd5sum is a link to md5sum or vice versa.
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