On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:36, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 22:31, Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:20, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:03, the brilliant beast wrote: > > Please be careful with the advice you hand out. This is the 2nd > > questionable RPM suggestion I've seen you post. The correct command to > > view installed files, as mentioned by Bret, is "rpm -ql <package>", > > where <package> is the name of said package. > > > oops, my mistake, yeah, sorry.
No worries. > > If you're unsure of the name of the package, you can use the "rpm -qf > > <file>" command to get the package that owns a particular file. This is > > in contrast to your earlier suggestion of "rpm -e --whatprovides `locate > > apachectl`". First, the --whatprovides option is used with the query > > (-q) flag, not the delete (-e) flag. In this case, the user should have > > I was just doing guess work, and I marked my suggestion as dubious. Please don't guess. When you give an answer on a list like this, you're representing yourself and the community. Make sure you have it right, or, at the very least, *believe* it's right. That's what manpages are for. :) Ok, this thread is now officially dead. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list