whereis not finding object

[Donald Thaler]

what would be the reason(s) that the whereis command will not return anything. i was in the directory where the item existed, the path statement included this directory, the whence command works.

oracle@apollo$ whereis libmdAddr.so
libmdAddr:
oracle@apollo$ whence libmdAddr.so
/u01/app/Clean_Address/bin/libmdAddr.so

logged in as user oracle, module is owned by oracle:
ls -all libmdAddr.so
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 3936256 Sep 18 17:46 libmdAddr.so

?????

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Donald:

The utility only searches in "standard" places. See the manpages for 'whereis'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Donald Thaler]

i saw that, but not knowing what a 'standard place' is i thought i'd ask the question. in trying to troubleshoot another problem the vendor had me do a whereis and when i didn't find anything i thought that maybe the reason i was having a problem finding a particular object was for the same reason that whereis couldn't find it.. guess not.. thanks...