What rpm provides dig and host tools
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Wed Aug 15 22:23:24 UTC 2007
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>> Looking for the package name to install the dig and host tools.
>>> yum provides dig or host gives me a long scrolling list and still not
>>> know what to choose.
>> It is bind-utils. If you do a
>>
>> yum whatprovides /usr/bin/dig
> Chaps, you have to remember that if the OP does not have the binary on
> his system, he is not going to know how to structure the query.
There's only a few places where executables normally go with Fedora's
packaging. The vast bulk of them go in /usr/bin
# for i in /bin /sbin /usr/bin/ /usr/sbin ; do echo $i ; ls $i | wc -w ;
done
/bin
105
/sbin
260
/usr/bin/
2826
/usr/sbin
441
Some go off in funny places down /usr/lib but that's very unusual.
Point being you can typically guess the path for the executable, and it
is typically /usr/bin.
-Andy
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