ya these scripts are in useland and for getting the parent package for these use the following command :- $ rpm -qf `which ls` similarly for ps, losetup and others put the corresponding script thing inplace of ls in the above command. Thanks. Sumit Sharma. IBM. On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 Christophe Lucas wrote : >Lei Yang (leiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am new to kernel and have a very basic question here. Where are the > > scripts such as "man", "ls", "ps", "losetup" etc. in kernel source tree? > > Or, are they in kernel source at all? This is kind of bothering me these > > days... Thanks for your hint! > >These program are in userland. So they are not in kernel source code. >Google will help you to search in which package where they are. > >HTH >-- >Amicalement/Regards > >Christophe Lucas - c.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxx - Registered User #271267 > > * GNU/Linux developer/network administrator > * Membre du RotomaLUG (LUG de la r�ion Rouennaise) > (http://www.rotomalug.org) > * http://odie.mcom.fr/~clucas/