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! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090225/83d29bc7/attachment-0005.sig>