I am running a VPS hosted at godaddy. Its Qmail got corrupt so m gona reinstall it. While installing Qmail,when i do run this command:
patch < /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.
Its gives the following error
-bash: patch: command not found
I stopped at the point and didnt proceed further.
As i told tha its a VPS and i dont have its physical access thatswhy i cant install the patch command from linux installation cd or any stuff from here. Godaddy demanding too much for fixing the problem so i m here with the hope that someone will help me regarding this matter.
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ohrite...thanks shakoush for your reply but if i am in a folder for example "/myfolder" and running the above patch command then which file is targeted for this change? I mean in above command the patch file is < to the patch command without any file info. Sorry for immature question but m nt much expert at it
Try installing the package which provides patch
http://rpm.pbone.net
and search for patch and try to download that result rpm using wget and install it.
(or)
try using yum -install <pkgname>
if u think yum is configured...
Here is whats written in the patch file. Any hint plz how may i could apply it manually?
diff -u ucspi-tcp-0.88.old/error.h
--- ucspi-tcp-0.88.old/error.h
+++ ucspi-tcp-0.88/error.h 2003-01-08 13:39:12.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#ifndef ERROR_H
#define ERROR_H
-extern int errno;
+#include <errno.h>
extern int error_intr;
extern int error_nomem;
Well, if its a Qmail setup you're going to be doing, you're going to really want to get patch working as this definitely won't be the only patch you are using. uscpi-tcp, daemontools and QMail all will require quite a bit of patching.
Almost every update to Qmail since 1.03 came out has been in patch form.
Judging from what it says on GoDaddy's site, you're usings either CentOS or Fedora Core, both of which use package management systems that should be able to install patch. (yum I believe)
Out of curiosity, are you using a particular walkthrough to install Qmail?
Thaknk you syngin for your quick response...i already run this command and got this output if you could see it please:
[root@ip-208-109-206-47 ucspi-tcp-0.88]# /usr/bin/yum install /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released 100% |=========================
extras 100% |=========================
base 100% |=========================
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================
updates-re: ##########################
Added 782 new packages, deleted 0 old in 8.82 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================
extras : ##########################
Added 2871 new packages, deleted 0 old in 17.90 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================
base : ##########################
Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 19.41 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================
updates-re: ##########################
Added 782 new packages, deleted 0 old in 16.45 seconds
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================
extras : ##########################
Added 2871 new packages, deleted 0 old in 19.49 seconds
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================
base : ##########################
Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 25.34 seconds
No Match for argument: /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.
Nothing to do
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m trying to raise points to 500 cz i think m taking too much time of you ppl
Thank you syngin...yes...i run the command it successfully did the process without any error...though the question has been closed bt i need just one favour (not must, you can simply ignore it) .. when i run package/ install command bellow as following the qmail documentation it came up with '-bash: package/: is a directory' indication....m i still wrong somewhere while following the instruction?
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by: shakoush2001Posted on 2008-03-03 at 01:29:07ID: 21029979
Yeah well ..all that path does is that it changes some lines in the file you are patching you could try to open and read the patch file and do the changes manually.