On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > 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! Reading postscript is easy with ghostscript: # ps2ascii ss.ps | more Should have all the pieces necessary now... -Ross