On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 13:40, Brian Ashe wrote:

> On Friday, November 30, 2001, 2:27:31 PM, you babbled something about:
> 
> MM> Trying to update wu-ftpd from rpm I get this error:
> 
> MM> [root@math /root]# rpm -Uvh 
> MM> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-0.6x.21.i386.rpm
> MM> error: failed dependencies:
> MM>         /etc/pam.d/system-auth is needed by wu-ftpd-2.6.1-0.6x.21
> MM> [root@math /root]#
>  
> I'm not sure what version you're running or what you may have customized,
> but that file is part of the pam package.
> 
> You may have a corrupt RPM database. You should check to see if the pam
> package is installed and if that file exists in reality.

Actually, it means that the pam update has not been applied.  Download
the pam rpm from a trusted mirror and apply that update first.  This got
me on one of my 6.2 systems.

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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