On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:29:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
