-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 April 2003 08:09 pm, Tino Meinen wrote: > Ah! I see now. > This will fail when a user tries to execute, while it would silently > erase the hard disk when executed as root. > Thanks for the explanation. > > One question > What command do you use to build a rpm from a src.rpm as a user? > rpmbuild --rebuild will fail because the user does not have write > access to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES Ahh, this is what started this thread. ;) The link below contains info and a script to set up a non root rpm environment in your $HOME directory. Once setup, the rpmbuild commands are the same, but the build process takes place in $HOME. http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+pd++n/07WoAb/SsRAppZAJ4hzOvb4XtViPmcpRC81lHk3T7cpQCgjFoa +Uu4kFoQfFFqa2pZqLJAPrQ= =Tupz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----