on 2-25-2009 10:29 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 2-25-2009 9:50 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
I accidentally typed ss instead of ls and was surprised when it did something... I can use rpm's --whatprovides to see where it came from, but how are you supposed to find out want a program does when it doesn't have a man page?
ss is part of iproute. It is similar to netstat.
Yeah, but where's the 'teach a man to fish...'?
Jim Perrin tried to teach you to fish, but as you found out, there are a lot of fish in lake Google!
OK.. Here is the fishing lesson.
"which ss" gives you a path
"yum provides /usr/sbin/ss" gives you a package name
"ls /usr/share/doc/$packagename" gives you some files to look at.
in that listing was ss.ps. Find a way to open or read ss.ps like gv or ggv and you have some info.
CSI it ain't!