try listing the files   (rpm -ql I think? or -pl ? ) and seeing what
binaries it installs .. I don't have SUSE11 available or would do that
myself.. (and am on Debian so can't check the rpm syntax)

Scott

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Scully, William P
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Can you report back to this list how we're now to determine the
> service-state (in particular the Service Pack level) of SuSE 11?
> Speaking from my own experience I liked SPident and it's built into our
> internal procedures widely.  I hate to see it go but am always willing
> to try something new.
>
> Having said that:
>
> linux024:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i suse-sam
> suse-sam-0.7.0-1.1
> linux024:~ # suse-sam
> If 'suse-sam' is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup
> the package that contains the binary:
>     command-not-found suse-sam
> -bash: suse-sam: command not found
> linux024:~ # command-not-found suse-sam
> linux024:~ # man suse-sam
> No manual entry for suse-sam
> linux024:~ #
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Mark Post
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SPident on SLES 11
>
> >>> On 4/29/2009 at 12:34 PM, "Scully, William P"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What package provides SPident?  After my SLES 11 installation it seems
> > missing:
>
> SPident isn't shipped any more, for a number of reasons.  There is a new
> package named suse-sam to verify the (supportability) state of the
> system.  I haven't played with it at all, so I don't know much about it.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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