Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:30:32 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely Message-ID: <20070117143032.GA22723@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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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? > > 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? When was your whatis(1) database last updated? md5sum is part of ports/sysutils/coreutils. IIRC its output is in a little different format than md5, but the calculation results are the same. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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