Bug 117228 - whois does not work as root
Summary: whois does not work as root
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 139574 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Marcus Schaefer
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Blocks: 97395
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Reported: 2005-09-15 14:56 UTC by Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x
Modified: 2005-12-16 13:36 UTC (History)
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Found By: Component Test
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Description Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2005-09-15 14:56:28 UTC 
whois silently does nothing when run as root. It should probably say "i do not
want to be run as root" :-)
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-15 15:49:55 UTC 
fatou:/suse/werner # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/whois
sax2-tools-2.7-27
Comment 2 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2005-09-15 16:43:35 UTC 
seife@strolchi:~> which whois
/usr/bin/whois
seife@strolchi:~> rpm -qf /usr/bin/whois
whois-4.7.5-3
seife@strolchi:~> maintainer whois
mmarek@suse.cz
Comment 3 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2005-09-15 16:44:31 UTC 
sorry, i did not get the funny part :-)
Yes, the sax2 whois should probably be renamed.
Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-16 13:08:26 UTC 
fixed
Comment 5 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-16 12:40:05 UTC 
*** Bug 139574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-16 12:41:02 UTC 
Markus: Do you have renamed the whois command included
        in the sax2-tools package?
Comment 7 Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 12:49:12 UTC 
No, i didnt renamed it, cause I didnt knew about. Also I dont understand why one creates a whois command that couldnt be run under root. And now, if we all know where the right one is, please try thos one with an ip address, there you'll see that it's working! Very hard to find that linux is more and more like a windows box :-(
Comment 8 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-16 13:29:34 UTC 
as I already said the old version of this whois program was installed to
/usr/X11R6/bin and has been accidently moved to /usr/sbin because of those
LSB policy. As fast as possible I renamed the program but unfortunately it
was too late for the product cycle of 10.0.

It is fixed since September the 15th and of course for stable. If you don't
mind you can update sax from the following location:

  ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/sax/head-build/suse-10.0
  
I'm really very sorry it was my stupid mistake but it is fixed
Comment 9 Axel Schneck 2005-12-16 13:36:21 UTC 
ah, ok I understand. But allow one further question, please. why doesnt the yast update fix this problem? isnt it possible th include it there?
regards,
axel