On 15 Nov 2001, at 9:07, Kurt Wall boldly uttered:
> 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.
[root@xxxxx RPMS]# rpm -v --test -i mrtg-2.9.10-1col.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
/etc/cron.d is needed by mrtg-2.9.10-1col
[root@xxxxx RPMS]#
[root@xxxxx RPMS]# rpm -w --test -i mrtg-2.9.10-1col.i586.rpm
-w: unknown option
[root@xxxxx RPMS]#
> > 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.
OoOoOoooh.. that explains it, thanks!
Phil
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Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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