On Saturday 15 November 2003 06:21 pm, damovand wrote: > This question may sound like a definite sign of brain deficiency to some of > you, but I hope you stay helpful regardless of your personal feelings :-} > > Generally speaking, I find it very hard to get version information on most > of the packages I have installed. There seems to be no way of telling what > version of a software is installed by looking at the rpm's. rpm's come > with a version number but where is that version number after a software is > installed. > > Specifically, I am trying to figure out what version of httpd is installed > on my machine. I recently upgraded to RH 9 from the official upgrade CD's. > I found a number rpm files in /var/spool/up2date/ for httpd and php and > other things, but I cannot find whether I have them installed or not. > > Sounds funny? I looked through documentation on > http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/database/database_php/ to get > a clue but that documentation seems totally out of date. Through a > previous attempt I found out that I can no longer look for apache because > it is replaced with httpd. But that site is still for apache. > > I decided just to make sure I should reinstall httpd from rpm's. No help, > here's what's happening > > When I do: > rpm -i httpd-manual-2.0.40-21.3.i386.rpm > I get the message: > > package httpd-manual-2.0.40-21.3.i386.rpm is not installed > > Then when I do: > rpm -i httpd-manual-2.0.40-21.3.i386.rpm > > I get the message > > package httpd-manual-2.0.40-21.3 is already installed > > All my httpd stuff seem to be installed under /etc/httpd > and > I don't know if this is of any help but I started my http server by > issuing 'startapache' and that is mapped to the following > ........................... > [root@localhost etc]# which startapache > alias startapache='/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start' > /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd > ....................... > > Please help with you advice, thank you. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
