On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Mike Frisch wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:46:09AM +0100, Peter Cannon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 04:15, THE ANALYZERS wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I have ethereal 0.10.3-2.1 installed. I know it because I typed "rpm
> > > -q ethereal". But whenever I type ethereal as root or otherwise, I get
> > > "ethereal: Command not found." Does someone know how to start it?
> >
> > I'm no expert but I suppose you tried ' ethereal & '
>
> What is the significance of backgrounding the task? The binary is not
> installed, so it won't run in the foreground or the background.
if you can't seem to locate the executable, my favorite trivial trick is
to:
$ rpm -ql ethereal ("ell", not "1", after the "q")
and see, in the list of files in the package, where the executable seems
to live. ethereal *should* be in /usr/sbin.
rday
