Are you in /usr/src/ when you apply the patch? Did you download and unpack the source tree? Does no good to patch something that isn't there.
-- Joel Goguen Bachelor of Computer Science III University of New Brunswick http://iapetus.dyndns.org/ Maverick wrote: > uppsss > > I am sorry I forgot to add the important bit. > When i run patch -p0 < 001_sendmail.patch, it asked me for the file to > patch. Can you please give me an example how to go that in sendmail patch? > > Thanks a lot for your help > I do appreciate that. > > > > Joe S wrote: >> Maverick wrote: >>> Thanks a lot for the answer >>> >>> I have tried it but i have something after that as well >>> >>> >>> >>> # cd /usr/src >>> # patch -p0 < 001_sendmail.patch >>> Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... >>> The text leading up to this was: >>> -------------------------- >>> |Apply by doing: >>> | cd /usr/src >>> | patch -p0 < 001_sendmail.patch >>> | >>> |And then rebuild and install sendmail: >>> | cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail >>> | make obj >>> | make depend >>> | make >>> | make install >>> | >>> |Index: gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/libsm/fflush.c >>> |=================================================================== >>> |RCS file: /cvs/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/libsm/fflush.c,v >>> |retrieving revision 1.2 >>> |diff -u -p -r1.2 fflush.c >>> |--- gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/libsm/fflush.c 1 Oct 2001 17:18:29 -0000 >>> 1.2 >>> |+++ gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/l >>> >>> >>> >>> Can you please tell me what i can i do with this? >>> >>> >> You have applied the patch to the sendmail source code. >> Now you must rebuild and install sendmail. >> >> The output from the patch command tells you what to do: >> >> > |And then rebuild and install sendmail: >> > | cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail >> > | make obj >> > | make depend >> > | make >> > | make install >> >> Since you are new to OpenBSD, you should know that OpenBSD tells you how >> to do all of the important things. In other words, OpenBSD is very well >> documented. However, to be successful you must learn to find the >> documentation. In this case it was right under your nose. All/most >> patches will tell you how to apply them. >> >> Also check the OpenBSD FAQ.
