Slightly OT, you can use 'rpm -Va' to verify all rpms installed and see if there are other missing files, links etc. Pavel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe [mailto:phd@fcomfrench.com] > Sent: Tue, January 21, 2003 5:25 PM > To: psyche-list > Subject: Re: File-roller and huge tar file > > > Hi Michael. > > Thanks for taking your time to answer to it. I don't have on > my side all > the answers (except for the 8Go because of MP3 files), but > you're right > at 100%. I was called after the problem, and not before, but root is a > bad idea, unless you know what you are doing, and precisely doing. > > The fact is that I found some missing files, but there will be others, > for sure. This is not the end of the problem. Thanks for your > explanation about the missing files, I am using Unix for more than 10 > years (even if not Linux), and never seen that before. But if I can > remember, none of us normal engineers working in the company knew the > root password ;-) > > Anyway, I will try to work on it more, and try to understand what > happened. Maybe I will have some more news from the > file-roller mailing > list. I think that the "tar -xvf" command line should not has > posed the > same problem, because it does not do a tar -tvf before extracting ... > thing that the GUI one does....and did ! > > But the real truth is : Don't use root unless you know > exactly what you > are doing, and can control it. > > Thanks for your time, Michael, and sorry for my poor English. > > Philippe > > -- > Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
