Jim Cornette wrote: > What I do when files are missing from a package is to run > rpm -e --justdb --nodeps <packagename> > to get rid of the database entry for the package. I then run > yum install packagename and answer yes to the yum prompt. This will > install the package and give you rpmnew or rpmsave files for important > configuration files that it encounters. Thanks very much. I followed your method, which seemed the simplest and safest of those suggested, and the missing files were indeed re-instated. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
