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| author | Timo Teras <timo.teras@gmail.com> | 2015-05-07 12:48:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2015-09-06 18:03:54 -0400 |
| commit | 8f6f1441a368b984b739658778f53db1bf71a543 (patch) | |
| tree | 9542c30c214e31d5da11a15d613c48ca9ee853cb /doc | |
| parent | 496f4f9d6af6f69d604c1cedfeb956159b66846e (diff) | |
Add rehash command to openssl
On Unix/Linux platforms, merge c_rehash script into openssl as a
C program.
Signed-off-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/rehash.pod (renamed from doc/apps/c_rehash.pod) | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/c_rehash.pod b/doc/apps/rehash.pod index e0a3d1995b..00ab29b140 100644 --- a/doc/apps/c_rehash.pod +++ b/doc/apps/rehash.pod @@ -5,20 +5,27 @@ Original text by James Westby, contributed under the OpenSSL license. =head1 NAME -c_rehash - Create symbolic links to files named by the hash values +c_rehash, rehash - Create symbolic links to files named by the hash values =head1 SYNOPSIS -B<c_rehash> +B<openssl> +B<rehash> B<[-old]> B<[-h]> B<[-n]> B<[-v]> [ I<directory>...] +B<c_rehash> +I<flags...> + =head1 DESCRIPTION -B<c_rehash> scans directories and calculates a hash value of each +On some platforms, the OpenSSL B<rehash> command is available as +an external script called B<c_rehash>. They are functionally equivalent. + +B<rehash> scans directories and calculates a hash value of each C<.pem>, C<.crt>, C<.cer>, or C<.crl> file in the specified directory list and creates symbolic links for each file, where the name of the link is the hash value. @@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ In order for a directory to be processed, the user must have write permissions on that directory, otherwise it will be skipped. The links created are of the form C<HHHHHHHH.D>, where each B<H> is a hexadecimal character and B<D> is a single decimal digit. -When processing a directory, B<c_rehash> will first remove all links +When processing a directory, B<rehash> will first remove all links that have a name in that syntax. If you have links in that format used for other purposes, they will be removed. To skip the removal step, use the B<-n> flag. @@ -87,7 +94,7 @@ This is needed when keeping new and old-style links in the same directory. =item B<-v> Print messages about old links removed and new links created. -By default, B<c_rehash> only lists each directory as it is processed. +By default, B<rehash> only lists each directory as it is processed. =back |