Re: up2date

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:26:56PM -0500, dTd wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a problem with redhats up2date servers? I have
> upgraded most all of my packages with rpms downloaded and stored on cd
> from updates.redhat.com . This current OS is installed from the respin
> isos and should be fully upgraded to the lates packages excluding bind
> (see my other post), but I am trying to use up2date to check for newer
> versions and more updates and recieve the message after it downloads list
> of all packages, checks my installed packages, downloads downloads list of
> updated packages:
> fatal rpm error, database access error. Is this on my end? I assume not as
> up2date reads my installed packages right off the bat before it downloads
> the list of new packages.
> 
> --

up2date puts its data  for its updates in /var/spool/up2date
What is the permissions on this directory?  I would expect that the
permissions would be: drwxr-x-r-x root root
but who knows. Of course you should also check the permissions on :
the rpm database which should be in /usr/lib/rpm but whose name escapes
me. Sorry.
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