On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:34:33 -0500
Gerald Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:

> On Tuesday 01 January 2002 12:10 pm, caspar kennerdale wrote:
> > is there away of finding out the location of afile orprogram on the
> > server via telnet.
> >
> > I want to execute lynx via cron and thus need to know its location.
> >
> 
> use    locate lynx    (may need to run updatedb)
> or 
> find / -name lynx
> 

how about   whereis lynx  ?

        [mdw1982@mdw1982 mdw1982]$ whereis lynx
        lynx: /usr/bin/lynx /etc/lynx.cfg /etc/lynx.lss /usr/share/lynx 
/usr/share/man/man1/lynx.1.bz2

works like a charm.

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