On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Brad Cox wrote: > Could someone advise on what this means and how to fix it? > > [bcox@linux: ]$ whois virtualschool.edu > No such file or directory while getting service info for whois >
A trace of the 'whois' command doesn't seem to point to any issue with the DNS configuration itself. I just ran the following command on a system where the 'whois' utility appears to be working fine: strace -fro /tmp/whois.out whois virtualschool.edu After that, I took a look at the contents of /tmp/whois.out (you may want to do the same) and found out a few 'open()' system calls to certain files that could be missing in your system: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf /var/run/.nscd_socket /etc/ld.so.cache /etc/host.conf /etc/hosts ... ... Well, you get the idea. I'd suggest you run the same command and take a look at the contents of the output file to see where your 'whois' utility is failing. There is a good chance it could be with one of these files (did you check your /etc/hosts?). -- ------------------------------------------------------ Nitebirdz ------------------------------------------------------ XFS for Linux: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
