Tim, Are you doing this as root? What are the permissions on the /tmp directory? ls -la /tmp
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Tim-Chr. Hanschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: patch problem Hi, I tried to patch kernel 2.4.17 with linux-2.4.17-s390.diff and got the following: patching file Documentation/Configure.help patch: **** Can't create file /tmp/pooFPYtf : File exists I used: patch -p1 < linux-2.4.17-s390.diff. The file does not exist! The directory tmp is completetly empty. - Tim -
