Qmail installation with CentOS

waelaltaqi · 11-10-2006, 04:33 PM

i'm trying to follow QmailRocks.org instructions for installing Qmail on my CentOS box. everything was going fine until i reached this point:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# patch</downloads/qmailrocks/patches/ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u ucspi-tcp-0.88.old/error.h ucspi-tcp-0.88/error.h
|--- ucspi-tcp-0.88.old/error.h 2000-03-18 09:18:20.000000000 -0600
|+++ ucspi-tcp-0.88/error.h     2003-01-08 13:39:12.000000000 -0600
--------------------------
File to patch:

what is the path for the file that i want to patch? i tried:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# updatedb
[root@localhost ~]# locate ucspi*

but it coudn't find nothing. any ideas?

Lenard · 11-11-2006, 09:34 AM

The patch command is wrong try adding the switch -p0 or maybe -p1 to it, for example;

patch -p0 < the_rest

waelaltaqi · 11-13-2006, 02:40 PM

i tried that as well and it's coming back with the same output. i would like you to take a brief look at the page:

http://www.qmailrocks.org/qmail.htm

take a look at the first red box in the middle of the page, where it says: Patch needed for redhat users. this is where i'm stuck. I'm using CentOS 4.4 so i don't know if the patch is needed or not. is there anyway to check that?

Lenard · 11-13-2006, 03:20 PM

Ok, after looking at this again with greater attention. It seems that the command is incomplete. You need to get the file ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch downloaded to patch one file. That patch file is here; http://qmail.linocomm.net/rpms/patches/

Just download the patch and apply in the usual way (patch -p0 or -p1) from the root of the qmail source directory. Or if you want simply follow the patch an manually make the edit, basically your just replacing one line in the ucspi-tcp-0.88/error.h file.

waelaltaqi · 11-15-2006, 07:29 AM

it was just a newbei mistake. i wasn't working from the same directory so the patch util wasn't able to find the patch file. thanks for your help. i'll try to pay more attension next time before asking.