Tim, You got me, then. Try doing strace patch -p1 < linux-2.4.17-s390.diff
and see what comes out. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Tim-Chr. Hanschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Re: patch problem Yes, I am logged in as root... the permissions: drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 May 24 07:50 tmp - Tim - "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 23.05.2002 15:35:51 Bitte antworten an Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet von: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: Thema: Re: patch problem 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 -
