voila, it works .. thanx guys actually i was logged in with a login ID that had root privs, but wasn't able to make it work, i tried the su approach and bingo !!!
tq -js ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: RE: [ilugd]: Can't install rpm from telnet : Hi, : : Are you trying to install as root? : : Change to root. Telnet may not allow you : to directly login as root. Login as any : other user and su to root. : : Regards, : : Venky : : -----Original Message----- : From: Jasmeet S. Virdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:14 PM : To: multiple recipients of : Subject: [ilugd]: Can't install rpm from telnet : : : hi folx, : i have access to a linux box thru telnet and FTP and was thinking of : upgrading the box thru this medium only. But as i recently : discovered, this : is not so easy. When ever i try to install an rpm package (on a : REDHAT 8.0 : system) thru telnet, it gives me the following error, Any pointers !!! : : error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages : error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not : permitted (1) : error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm : : thanx : -jasmeet : : ================================================ : To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with : unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at : http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org : : ================================================ : To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org : ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
