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[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 11. August 2006 12:57 schrieb Volker Poplawski:
> Make sure you have rpm whois installed
> AND
> running the correct binary of whois. There is a second whois binary in the
> sax2-tools rpm, which seems to be totaly unrelated to the whois command,
> but gets precedence by $PATH over the exspected whois (neat eh?! ;-)
>
> The exspected whois resides in /usr/bin/whois.
> Use 'type whois' and 'rpm -qf <path-to-whois>' to check which one you are
> executing.
>
> Greetings
> .....Volker

I've just installed whois. It works as a user, but not as root. 
as you said, rpm -qf /usr/sbin/whois gives:
sax2-tools-2.7-27
(both, typed as user and as root)

but what must I do now that it runs the reight whois as root too? Or is it 
better not to run it as root anyway?

Daniel
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