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 -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch