Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:44:24 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely Message-ID: <20070118184424.GA76751@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <45af3e08.TRLLm0mLU32eXH1d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <op.tmaffjcgkagcwh@phong.carpetsmoker.net> <20070117174912.106fed49@gumby.homeunix.com> <45af3e08.TRLLm0mLU32eXH1d%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:29:44AM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > > 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 >=20 > It still seems like a bug that apropos includes "md5sum(1)" in its > output, when no such manpage exists. Bug in that port's manpage. Talk to the port maintainer or fix it yourself and submit the patch. Kris --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFr8AIWry0BWjoQKURAv72AKDAfkDYOJrZgZ1bIPo1fhg+Icd+xgCgy9EH DI5yN8NPM7ipD3lmZ4BEjiY= =CFOY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--
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