Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07:12AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages?
> Upstream (debian then Fedora ) there seems to be a man page.
>
> SS(8) SS(8)
>
> NAME
> ss - another utility to investigate sockets
>
> SYNOPSIS
> ss [options] [ FILTER ]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can dis-
> play more TCP and state informations than other tools.
> ....
Thanks - even more than the obvious problem of finding reference
documentation there is the issue of knowing you might want to use it at
all. If 'man -k socket' doesn't suggest ss, how are you supposed to
find out about it?
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