Solved Looking for an equivalent to pkg-which for files installed in /sbin

[User Marles]

Hello all,

I ordinarily use pkg which to find out which package installed a specific file. But it doesn't seem to work for files in /sbin:

9:51 phil@humble-abode ~% pkg which /sbin/fsck_msdosfs
/sbin/fsck_msdosfs was not found in the database
zsh: exit 70    pkg which -o /sbin/fsck_msdosfs
9:52 phil@humble-abode ~% pkg which -o /sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig was not found in the database

I gave a try to pkg query, with no luck until now.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you very much.

 

[SirDice]

Those are all part of the base OS, not from packages. The base OS is a complete "set".

 

[User Marles]

Thank you SirDice,
That was my guess (only I wasn't sure about fsck_ext2fs or fsck_msdosfs, I just couldn't remember if I had installed them myself)...

Regards

 

[SirDice]

Ports/packages always use /usr/local/ as a prefix. So everything in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin is part of the base OS. On FreeBSD there is a clear separation between the base OS and third party software (ports or packages).