%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Whois-&whois-version; Whois Introduction to Whois Whois is a client-side application which queries the whois directory service for information pertaining to a particular domain name. This package by default will install two programs: whois and mkpasswd. The mkpasswd command is also installed by the package. &lfs74_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &whois-md5sum; Download size: &whois-size; Estimated disk space required: &whois-buildsize; Estimated build time: &whois-time; User Notes: Installation of Whois Build the application with: make You can install the whois program, the mkpasswd program, and the locale files independently. Control your choice of what is installed with the following commands issued as the root user: Installing this version of mkpasswd will overwrite the same command installed by . make prefix=/usr install-whois make prefix=/usr install-mkpasswd make prefix=/usr install-pos Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories whois and mkpasswd None None Short Descriptions whois is a client-side application which queries the whois directory service for information pertaining to a particular domain name. whois