Re: Silly Question about Ping

2001-10-02 Thread David Cheng 

Actually, rpmfind.net was the first place I checked.  It returned a couple
of packages that actually were called ping.  But now that I know where it
is, I'm much happier...:)  Thanks for the info.

dc

While emailing instead of doing something productive on 10/2/01 5:04 PM,
Quentin Mason wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>> is there an RPM on the CD that includes ping?
> 
> rpm -qf `which ping`  on an x86 redhat machine at work gives
> iputils-20001010-1
> 
> rpmfind.net would probably also have helped you out here.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Q.
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: Silly Question about Ping

2001-10-02 Thread Stew Benedict 


On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, David Cheng wrote:

> OK, this must rank as one of the most bone-headed questions, but I can't
> seem to find ping...:P  I've done a fairly basic install of Mandrake onto my
> machine, but I guess I expected ping to be installed.  I can't seem to find
> an RPM on the CD for it, though I did find an RPM for traceroute.  I've
> downloaded the source for ping and can install it that way, but I'm just
> curious, is there an RPM on the CD that includes ping?
> 

[stew@powerbook-cooker cooker-SRPMS]$ rpm -qif `which ping`
Name: iputils  Relocations: /usr 
Version : 20001110  Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release : 7mdk  Build Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001
02:38:05 PM EDT


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Re: Silly Question about Ping

2001-10-02 Thread Ben Reser 

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:57:33PM -0700, David Cheng wrote:
> OK, this must rank as one of the most bone-headed questions, but I can't
> seem to find ping...:P  I've done a fairly basic install of Mandrake onto my
> machine, but I guess I expected ping to be installed.  I can't seem to find
> an RPM on the CD for it, though I did find an RPM for traceroute.  I've
> downloaded the source for ping and can install it that way, but I'm just
> curious, is there an RPM on the CD that includes ping?

[breser@titanium breser]$ rpm -qf `which ping`
iputils-20001110-5mdk

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Re: Silly Question about Ping

2001-10-02 Thread Quentin Mason 


Hi,

> is there an RPM on the CD that includes ping?

rpm -qf `which ping`  on an x86 redhat machine at work gives 
iputils-20001010-1

rpmfind.net would probably also have helped you out here.

Good luck,

Q.