On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:02:02PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote:
> > > Linux comes with "fwhois", the finger style whois.
> > > Where can I get the RPM or source code for the good old
> > > Unix style whois so I can use ...
> > >     whois [-h whois.host] hostname
> > 
> > I use bw-whois, which has the advantage of being a perl script: I could
> > customize it if I wished to. It is available in RPM.
> > 
> > ccurley@charlesc # rpm -qa | grep -i whois
> > bw-whois-2.3-1
> > ccurley@charlesc $ whois
> > BW whois 2.3 by Bill Weinman <http://bw.org/>
> > Copyright 1999-2000 William E. Weinman
> > <snip>
> 
> The latest on the website is 2.5a, however I could not find any RPMs
> on the site or in LM7.2 mirrors.

Hmmm, I didn't necessarily get it from Mandrake. Try Red Hat. Try CPAN.


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