----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <apapadop@cmu.edu> To: "Brandon Broyles" <netfilter@drbroyles.com> Cc: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:45 PM Subject: Re: Is there something wrong with patch-o-matic? Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:32, Brandon Broyles wrote: <snip> >> I think I may have a clue on where to start. I was looking at the >> 'isapplied' script that came with patch-o-matic. In line 32 it >> references a command that doesn't exist for me. It reads as such... >> >> MISSING_FILES=`patch -R -s -f -p1 < $PATCH | grep "No file to patch" >> | wc -l` >> >> >> I have no 'patch' command and there isn't one anywhere under my >> netfilter directory I got from CVS. I'm not too keen with shell >> scripting, so I'm not sure how the absence of a patch command will >> effect the overall workings of the 'runme' script. > >No "patch" command on a linux system? It *should* be there, and it >*should* be in your path. > >If the "which patch" command returns nothing, then this is the problem. >Get and install "patch" somewhere in your path (/usr/bin on my system) >and you should be set. Thank you. That was the missing piece of the problem. I didn't have the patch program on my system. I guess that it isn't automatically come with the installation that I choose and I haven't ever needed it yet. I installed the RPM for it and the (runme) script ran the way I would expect. Thank you, Brandon Broyles
