Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Dear friends, > > Part of which package is netplugd? I have it on my machine and want > to know why it is there and what it is doing. Yum finds no package of > such name. Thanks! There are a few ways to find out. You can use rpm: $ rpm -qif `which netplugd` Name : net-tools Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.60 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 73 Build Date: Mon 07 Aug 2006 07:18:31 AM EDT Install Date: Sun 05 Nov 2006 11:09:21 PM EST Build Host: hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: net-tools-1.60-73.src.rpm Size : 760253 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 03 Oct 2006 10:57:34 PM EDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : Basic networking tools. Description : The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others. The options are -q query, -i info, -f file - uses a file instead of a package name. You can also use repoquery: $ repoquery --info --whatprovides /sbin/netplugd net-tools-0:1.60-73.i386 $ repoquery --info net-tools-0:1.60-73.i386 Name : net-tools Version : 1.60 Release : 73 Architecture: i386 Size : 760253 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Group : System Environment/Base URL : None Repository : core Summary : Basic networking tools. Description : The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others. HTH, -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Politics is the business of tinkering with other people's lives. -- Nolan Neathercutt
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