RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

["Juha Saarinen" <juha_saarinen email msn com>]

Are you sure that the //'s break it?

[juha vimfuego juha]$ cd /var/spool
[juha vimfuego spool]$ cd
[juha vimfuego juha]$ cd //var/spool
[juha vimfuego spool]$
[juha vimfuego spool]$ cd
[juha vimfuego juha]$ cd /var//spool
[juha vimfuego spool]$

I can move between directories using / or //.

There might be another problem... silly question, perhaps, but have you got
enough room in /var?

-- Juha

%-> -----Original Message-----
%-> From: Ward William E PHDN [mailto:wardwe nswcphdn navy mil]
%-> Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2000 3:49 a.m.
%-> To: 'redhat-list redhat com'
%-> Subject: RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.
%->
%->
%-> Chuck,
%->
%-> You obviously missed my post earlier about how when I try to use
%-> rpm on one of my systems, it appends a leading / to the front...
%-> so that it is trying to constantly update //var/spool.... as
%-> opposed to /var/spool.... and that rpm --rebuilddb doesn't work
%-> for the same reason....
%->
%-> I asked for help there, too... I've read the man pages, read the
%-> FAQ, read the How-to.... and nothing seems to point to how to fix
%-> that.
%->
%-> Just because you've been having success with RPM doesn't mean that
%-> it is bug free... that's a HUGE bug, and I've yet to see someone
%-> say how to fix it, but it has now hosed an >OTHERWISE FINE SYSTEM<
%-> to the point I have to Microsoft and do a complete reinstall...
%->
%-> So, Mr. Guru, I await.... I haven't reinstalled the system (intend to
%-> do so today)... how can I save Linus?  And how do I get these old
%-> RPMs for Charlie so that I can get it up to snuff?  If you know the
%-> answers, please tell me.
%->
%-> Bill Ward
%->