Re: How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

Peter Boosten wrote:
Paul Schmehl wrote:
illoai@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Peter Wang wrote:
for example, after i installed pfsense, which is based on freebsd
release 7.1, i found adduser command is missing.

so how to find out which ports contains `adduser' command?
thanks for your replies.

% which adduser
/usr/sbin/adduser

Thus it is part of the base system, installed through /usr/src
rather than /usr/ports.

Also, as you are running (essentially) 7.x, this is probably
better on freebsd-questions than current.

I think you misunderstood his question.

This would be one way to do it:

find /usr/ports/ -type f -exec grep -sq adduser {} \; -print

That is horribly inefficient because it forks a separate
grep process for every single file under /usr/ports.
Also it will print a lot of false positive, because the
ports tree contains several files and scripts that call
adduser.

How about man pkg_info

From memory: pkg_info -W /usr/sbin/adduser

That won't work, because pkg_info only reports information
about packages that you have installed.

One way to find which ports provide a certain file is to
use the "porgle" search engine:

http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/?w=p&q=adduser

However, there is an adduser command in /usr/sbin which is
part of the FreeBSD base system. If some script complains
about that command being missing, you should invstigate
whether you do have that command in /usr/sbin.

It's unlikely that a port requires a different command with
the same name without having a dependency on the port that
provides that command.

Best regards
Oliver

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