[newbie]how to find out a feature is installed

[Guido Lenk]

hi,

how can i find out if a feature (i.e. procmail) is installed?

Guido
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[Guido Lenk]

Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> schrieb:

>That'll depend *how* it's installed. If it's gone in as a formal
>software package then the pkginfo command will run through the database
>of what's on the system and tell you what's there.
>
>However, there's no requirement for software to be added this way, so it
>may be easiest just to use the find command, starting from either /,
>/usr or possibly /opt. Something like
>
> find / -name procmail -print
>should do, but before you do that, which could take quite a while, just do
> which procmail
>which will have a look in the default search path and see if such a
>filename is in it.

thx a lot!
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Guido Lenk University of Passau
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Tel.+49 (851) 509 - 3187
Institute for Information-Systems Fax +49 (851) 509 - 3182
and Softwaretechnique [url]www.ifis.uni-passau.de[/url]

[Guido Lenk]

Anthony Mandic <pi@hotmail.com> schrieb:

> Ask your system administrator. He/she should know.
>

:-D or better :-( it's me. but i am new to solaris ;-)


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Guido Lenk University of Passau
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Tel.+49 (851) 509 - 3187
Institute for Information-Systems Fax +49 (851) 509 - 3182
and Softwaretechnique [url]www.ifis.uni-passau.de[/url]

[Anthony Mandic]

Guido Lenk wrote:

> :-D or better :-( it's me. but i am new to solaris ;-)

Then you should know what you've installed - unless you
inherited the system. In which case, look at pkginfo or
check the path or use find.

-am © 2003

[Bob Hoekstra]

Luca Miselli wrote:

>>Guido Lenk wrote:
>>
>>

>>>:-D or better :-( it's me. but i am new to solaris ;-)

>>
>> Then you should know what you've installed - unless you
>> inherited the system. In which case, look at pkginfo or
>> check the path or use find.

>
>
> I'm not an expert but dosen't
>
> which procmail
>
> tell you if you have it installed or not?

No. It will tell you if there is an executable file called procmail in one of the
directories in your PATH. It would be my first attempt though.

Others have suggested using pkginfo. This is useful if (a) the software has been instlled
as a package and (b) you know the package name. Condition (b) no longer applies if you use
the previously suggested `grep procmail /var/sadm/install/contents`.

The only sure way to find every file called procmail is `find / -name procmail`. You need
to be root. You also need to be patient.


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[Anthony Mandic]

Luca Miselli wrote:

> I'm not an expert but dosen't
>
> which procmail
>
> tell you if you have it installed or not?

No, it just tells you where in your PATH a program named 'procmail'
resides.

-am © 2003

[Anthony Mandic]

Bob Hoekstra wrote:

> Others have suggested using pkginfo. This is useful if (a) the software has
> been instlled as a package and (b) you know the package name.

You don't need to know the package name to use pkginfo. pkginfo
reports a description along with the package. Even if you didn't
know the name reading or grep'ing the description would probably
suffice.

> Condition (b) no longer applies if you use
> the previously suggested `grep procmail /var/sadm/install/contents`.

And that's only useful if it is installed as a package.

> The only sure way to find every file called procmail is `find / -name procmail`.
> You need to be root. You also need to be patient.

Yes. however, there's no guarantee that something called "procmail"
is the procmail.

-am © 2003

[Peter Clinch]

Guido Lenk wrote:

> :-D or better :-( it's me. but i am new to solaris ;-)

If you haven't inherited it, then almost certainly no: procmail's not
part of any Solaris distribution AFAIK.

Note that it's available as a package at [url]http://sunfreeware.com/[/url], so
since you're sysadmin you can always put a copy in yourself, and then
you can be pretty sure it's there!

Pete.
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