Re: [cobalt-users] Various problems on raq3 - RPM

["Bill" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I
> tried to install the rpm, I get this
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> I figured this to be a configuration problem and went digging for a config
> file. I couldn't find one with any reference to that file, so now I'm
here.

I don't know if your RPM problem is similar to mine, but I had difficulty
with RPMs on the RaQ3 when I installed MySQL.  I upgraded RPM with the
following 2 files....

Install First:         bzip2-0.9.5d-2.i386.rpm  <Updates a file necessary to
install the rpm below>
Install Second:    rpm-3.0.4-0.48.i386.rpm   <Upgrades your RPM system>

And my problem vanished.

You can download them from

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RP
MS/

Bill


> It seems the os 4 update has caused more problems for us than anything...
>
> The first problem discovered:
> It seems our aliases no longer work. Our aliases.majordomo APPEAR to be
> functional, but I have not yet fully tested that, and it's not used except
> by a couple of users, and they haven't complained, and one of the lists
I'm
> on I did receive mail from. I've restarted sendmail, restarted the server,
> tried 'newaliases', all to no avail.
>
> The second problem discovered:
> This prompted me to install an rpm I found on the cobalt site a while
back.
> It's a sendmail rpm of the same version that is currently installed. When
I
> tried to install the rpm, I get this
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> I figured this to be a configuration problem and went digging for a config
> file. I couldn't find one with any reference to that file, so now I'm
here.
>
> If the sendmail problem can be fixed without installing the rpm, the rpm
> issue can be put on the back burner for now. Though not many people use
> majordomo, many people that use our server rely on the aliases.
>
> Beau (Strider) Steward
> chatcircuit administrator and 6bit band member
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