Whois-5.4.1

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# Whois-5.4.1

## 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 will install two programs by default: whois and mkpasswd. The mkpasswd command is also installed by the Expect-5.45.4 package.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/archive/v5.4.1/whois-5.4.1.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: 384a56d576ab4dcd52b472b84e0268f8

- Download size: 100 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB

- Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

### Whois Dependencies

#### Optional

libidn-1.35 or libidn2-2.1.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/whois

## 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:

### Note

Installing this version of mkpasswd will overwrite the same command installed by Expect-5.45.4.

    make prefix=/usr install-whois
    make prefix=/usr install-mkpasswd
    make prefix=/usr install-pos

## Contents

Installed Programs: whois and mkpasswd
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

### Short Descriptions

whois | is a client-side application which queries the whois directory service for information pertaining to a particular domain name.
mkpasswd | generates a new password, and optionally applies it to a user.

Last updated on 2019-02-21 18:01:54 -0600

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