# Can't find whois.init file

**URL:** <https://forum.ripe.net/t/cant-find-whois-init-file/579>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** whois\
**Created:** [17 July 2023 08:53 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/cant-find-whois-init-file/579 "2023-07-17T08:53:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![tchizhov.m](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/tchizhov.m/32/284_2.png) [@tchizhov.m](https://forum.ripe.net/u/tchizhov.m)\
**Post date:** [17 July 2023 08:53 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/cant-find-whois-init-file/579/1 "2023-07-17T08:53:36Z")

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Hi, good morning!,

i downloaded recently the Whois project, but the /tools directory has no whois.init file. Also cannot find it through all the project… Build is succesful. Would you kindly advise how to find it?

root@RIPE:/home/maxim/whois/tools# ls  
hazelcast.xml precommitcheck ripedb.cnf  
jvm.java.security rdap-conformance.py  
root@RIPE:/home/maxim/whois/tools#

root@RIPE:/home/maxim/whois/tools# find / -name “whois.init”  
find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied  
find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied  
root@RIPE:/home/maxim/whois/tools#

I tried to rebuild, rerun tests for several times, but nothing  
neither it is in GIT:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/ripe/original/1X/f5cdbdc371186e01c6f6125b07b7dea79fad3fa0.png)

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**Author:** ![Miguel\_Herran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/miguel_herran/32/150_2.png) [@Miguel\_Herran](https://forum.ripe.net/u/Miguel_Herran)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2023 07:48 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/cant-find-whois-init-file/579/2 "2023-07-27T07:48:26Z")

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Good Morning!  
Sorry for the late reply.  
We purposely got rid of that file, because we no longer need it.

please use this command:

```auto
/usr/bin/java -Dwhois -Djsse.enableSNIExtension=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dhazelcast.jmx=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1099 -Xms1024m -Xmx8g -Dwhois.config=properties -Duser.timezone=UTC -Dhazelcast.config=hazelcast.xml -Dlog4j.configurationFile=file:log4j2.xml -jar whois.jar

```

If you want prefer to use that file you can get it from the previous tag (82c3dcca):

> <https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/tree/82c3dcca/tools>
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> //github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/tree/82c3dcca/tools

Regards!  
Miguel

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**Author:** ![tchizhov.m](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/tchizhov.m/32/284_2.png) [@tchizhov.m](https://forum.ripe.net/u/tchizhov.m)\
**Post date:** [29 July 2023 20:57 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/cant-find-whois-init-file/579/3 "2023-07-29T20:57:54Z")

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Hi Miguel!,

okk, got it thank you very much!  
I’ll be using latest version with this command