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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
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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