Philip J. Koenig jabbered: > I'm trying to install mrtg-2.9.10-1col from the the Caldera wkstn 3.1 > supplementary CD to my newly installed Caldera 3.1 workstation. > > No matter whether I use Kpackage or the traditional rpm program, it > fails on a dependency "/etc/cron.d is needed by.."
Add -v or -vv to the rpm command line and you will get a better idea of what is causing rpm to choke. Are you installing (-i) or upgrading (-U)? > /etc/cron.d isn't a file, it's a directory.. and it's present. I'm > logged in as root. Shall I conclude the problem is a badly packaged > rpm that is looking for a *file* called /etc/cron.d, or ??? Possibly. See what the -v or -vv option tells you. > PS: I was a member of this list since the beginning, but not active > for a while. I discovered I was unsubscribed today, looked back at > the archives I found the last message I had received from the list > was on 10/9. Was there some kind of purge of accounts around then? > I just re-subscribed. No, there was a severe disk crash in mid-October that killed the mailing lists, including the subscription database. Kurt -- Most seminars have a happy ending. Everyone's glad when they're over. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
