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Re: RH5.2 Upgrade Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Williams)
Fri Nov 6 15:51:04 1998

From: "David Williams" <dlw@trailingedge.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:48:53 -0600
Reply-to: dlw@trailingedge.com
In-reply-to: <364339DC.D893B8CF@iname.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

I don't see any .listing files in the stuff I downloaded or on Red 
Hat's ftp site.  I did use the fix-rhcd to check permissions and 
missing files and corrected the ones that were incorrect.  Still can't 
make it find "/bin/insmod" during the update.

On 6 Nov 98, at 13:03, Jan Carlson wrote:

> Certain files on the CD need certain permissions.
> 
> Each directory comes with a file called .listing that
> tells you the permissions needed by everything in that
> directory.   So I ran a script to do what the .listing
> files say!  It's ugly but it worked.
> 
> cd <top directory containing files for the cd>
> find . -type d -print  |  grep -v " " | while read ddd
> do
>    listingfix $ddd
> done
> 
> (listingfix is attached)


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dlw@trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com


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