From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 09:34:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534BF16A492 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3241A13C471 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id l0I9YCC6084604 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id l0I9YAF1084596; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from fbsd61 ([192.168.200.61]) by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA00739; Thu, 18 Jan 07 01:27:15 PST Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:29:44 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com Message-Id: <45af3e08.TRLLm0mLU32eXH1d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <45adc265.ZN+ZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20070117174912.106fed49@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070117174912.106fed49@gumby.homeunix.com> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:34:16 -0000 > > The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum', > > and it is part of the base. ... > > 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. gmd5sum is indeed from a port, but md5sum does not exist at all on my system, either as an executable or as a manpage. md5 does exist, as both an executable and a manpage. Either md5 or gmd5sum can be used to verify downloads; as someone else mentioned they produce the same results (although formatted differently). > The coreutils package installs the GNU utilities that form the > basis of Linux distributions - grep, chmod etc. Since most of > these names clash with the FreeBSD base system, the binaries all > get renamed with a "g" prefix. The GNU docs still internally > refer to them with their original names e.g. "man gmd5sum" will > refer to md5sum It still seems like a bug that apropos includes "md5sum(1)" in its output, when no such manpage exists.