Re: Newbie getting nowhere

Stephen Warren wrote:
> I'm not sure what you're expecting rpmbuild to do, so I can't really
> answer that. But, note that rpmbuild creates a .rpm file that you then
> have to use with "rpm -i" - it'll be somewhere inside /usr/src, I think.
>
> The /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/tmda-1.1.8/ directory you mentioned before is
> just a temporary build area for the RPM packaging process, and should be
> ignored.
>   
I was just expecting it to produce a .rpm file. As I ended up with a 
load of files in the BUILD directory, but no .rpm anywhere, I'm guessing 
that it failed.
>> Oct 17 13:19:37 server local[13918]: fatal: execvp 
>> /usr/local/tmda-1.1.8/bin/tmda-filter: Permission denied
>>     
>
> you probably need something like this:
>
> chmod +x /usr/local/tmda-1.1.8/bin/tmda-filter
> chmod -R og+rX /usr/local/tmda-1.1.8
Nope, no effect. All the scripts seems to be executable by everyone but 
still no joy.

Thanks for your efforts
Tim