Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 18:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:59 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 23:01 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:30 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Is there any arping available for a FC7 ?
I don't have 7 installed on anything, anymore, but 9 has two arping
commands. One in /sbin/ the other in /usr/sbin/. Neither of which is
in the search path for ordinary users. Try looking for yours in there.
But only /sbin/arping is used by default. So it is strange that there
are two of them.
One is a symlink to the other.
poc
That does answer the question of why there are two of them.
There aren't two of them as he said one is a symlink, the symlink in
/usr/sbin points to the arping in /sbin. It is essentially a shortcut,
like a desktop short cut that starts for example firefox. Its not
actually the program but a pointer to the file you want to execute. As
to why there is a symlink which seems to be your question, because some
other program or programs are coded to expect arping to be in /usr/sbin
rather than sbin so the symlink was created to satisfy this dependency
or the other programs would fail to find it and as a result fail to
execute as expected.
-Max
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