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Subject: Re: Libraries and things a file is linked to?
From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com>
To: Gerald "T." Freymann <gerry@eagle.ca>
Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Use ldd binary name.



On 19 Apr 2001 11:08:27 -0400, Gerald T. Freymann wrote:
> > I remember seeing a command that would show what
> > files or libraries a certain binary is linked to.
> 
>  Um, that would simply be the "locate" command would it?
> 
>  For instance,
> 
> locate libcrypto
> 
>  (which goes on and on on one of my production boxes)
> 
> If your machine has been running for over a week, it would have rebuilt the
> locate database for you already. But if you've been messing with the box,
> you can manually rebuild the locate database with:
> 
> /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -gf
> 
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