whois - Client for the whois directory service HOWTO

ChangeLog


2011/03/14	- 5.0.10 -> 5.0.11
		- Fixed the note for versions included with Slackware
2010/01/04	- 4.7.15 -> 5.0.10
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0
		  and 13.1, removed older
		- Removed old parts referencing Slackware 7.1, 8.0, etc.
Aug 16, 2006	- 4.7.8 -> 4.7.15
		- Only run removepkg if it exists
		- Added uninstall notes to the bottom
Sep 16, 2005	- 4.6.13 -> 4.7.8
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2
		- Changed download URL from
		  http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
		  to
		  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Added run of removepkg
		- Run chmod -R u+w on the source after installing it so
		  your non-root account will have permissions to remove it
		  later
Apr 12, 2004	- 4.6.9 -> 4.6.13
Feb 4, 2004	- 4.6.7 -> 4.6.9
		- Added note about what comes with Slackware
Sep 25, 2003	- 4.6.6 -> 4.6.7
Jun 30, 2003	- 4.6.5 -> 4.6.6
May 12, 2003	- 4.6.3 -> 4.6.5
		- Added something to remove whois.mo (nls) files that it
		  installs
Apr 24, 2003	- Set to re-use tarball
		- Added prerequisite: perl
		- Set calls to mkdir to create the dir with 700 perms
Mar 18, 2003	- 4.6.1 -> 4.6.3
Feb 5, 2003	- 4.6.1 -> 4.6.2
Dec 11, 2002	- 4.6.0 -> 4.6.1
Dec 6, 2002	- 4.5.31 -> 4.6.0
		- Updated removal of old versions
		- Added cleaning out of references to Slack-installed whois
		  from the tcpip(1) package
Oct 16, 2002	- 4.5.29 -> 4.5.31
Aug 11, 2002	- Added note about old versions of libc
Aug 8, 2002	- 4.5.28 -> 4.5.29

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