[SunHELP] Patch will not install

[Dale Ghent]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Ben Ricker wrote:

> This looks like it has a dependency. If it does, do I jusst keep 
> running
> it, installing pkgs as they fail or is there an actual dependency
> listing? There is none at the patches  home page:

as root, do a recursive chown of the patch to nobody:nobody and then 
attempt to run patchadd again.

user nobody has to be able to read the patch files, and the failure of 
checkinstall to be executed by patchadd is indicative of user nobody 
not having read access to the patch files.

/dale


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