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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <apapadop@cmu.edu>
To: "Brandon Broyles" <netfilter@drbroyles.com>
Cc: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: Is there something wrong with patch-o-matic?


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On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:32, Brandon Broyles wrote:
<snip>
>> I think I may have a clue on where to start.  I was looking at the
>> 'isapplied' script that came with patch-o-matic.  In line 32 it
>> references a command that doesn't exist for me.  It reads as such...
>>
>> MISSING_FILES=`patch -R -s -f -p1 < $PATCH | grep "No file to patch"
>> | wc -l`
>>
>>
>> I have no 'patch' command and there isn't one anywhere under my
>> netfilter directory I got from CVS.  I'm not too keen with shell
>> scripting, so I'm not sure how the absence of a patch command will
>> effect the overall workings of the 'runme' script.
>
>No "patch" command on a linux system? It *should* be there, and it
>*should* be in your path.
>
>If the "which patch" command returns nothing, then this is the problem.
>Get and install "patch" somewhere in your path (/usr/bin on my system)
>and you should be set.

Thank you.  That was the missing piece of the problem.  I didn't have the patch
program on my system.  I guess that it isn't automatically come with the
installation that I choose and I haven't ever needed it yet.  I installed the
RPM for it and the (runme) script ran the way I would expect.

Thank you,
Brandon Broyles