Re: PATCH-O-MATIC (installation issue)

["Joshua C. Clark" <Josh@NetworkMedics.Com>]

I can get past that it just fails whenever I try to click 'y' to install the
atches comlaining about missing files, really I only want to be able to use
time features with IPTABLES, but I dont see that in the POM, what am I doing
wrong, thanks in advance!!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:43 PM
Subject: RE: PATCH-O-MATIC (installation issue)


> > I am so stupid, I didnt realize that by simply downloading the
> > package that was the IPTABLES source directory, however when I run
> > the runme it asks if i want to patch but when I say yes to any of
> > them it tells me it is missing files.. Any ideas?
>
> Yes, well, where did you untar the iptables source ? You have to tell
> POM where it is, just like it has to know where the kernel-source is.
> Try running POM like this :
>
> KERNEL_DIR=/path/to/kernel-src IPTABLES_DIR=/path/to/iptables-src \
>   ./runme [base|extra]
>
> You have to fill in the real paths, I can't do that for you.
>
>
> Gr,
> Rob
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>
> > To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:25 PM
> > Subject: RE: PATCH-O-MATIC (installation issue)
> >
> >
> >>> I can find the kernerl source but I cannot seem to find the iptables
> >>> source, and when I point it to the same location as my linux kernel
> >>> it fails saying it doesnt know the IPTABLES source, does this make
> >>> sense, and thank you for following up!
> >>
> >> Ah, yes you did write that.. Sorry about that.
> >> All sources are separate packages. I don't know if you have
> >> installed the iptables source. However, I'd recommend to download
> >> the source of both iptables and POM snapshots from the ftp site of
> >> the Netfilter project as you can download more up-to-date sources.
>
>
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