Am Sa, den 10.01.2004 schrieb Technical um 01:00: > I cannot get ti to work; what am I doing wrong; here is the output > > [root@sojourn root]# rpm2cpio > /var/spool/up2date/sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd /etc/mail/ > sendmail.mc > 4574 blocks > cpio: premature end of archive > [root@sojourn root]# Please do not top-post! $ rpm2cpio sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -t | grep sendmail.mc 4574 blocks ./etc/mail/sendmail.mc rpm2cpio sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./etc/mail/sendmail.mc You did leave off the . in front of the path. The last command will create the full path in the current directory. So the sendmail.mc is after processing in $pwd/etc/mail/. -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653