Subject: Patch installs

From: Chuck Wilkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:27:31 -0400

Hi All,
        I am trying to apply the patches for wu-ftpd beta18. I have the
patches but, have only used ./install_cluster for Solaris.
     I issued the command      patch wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-18-vr3.patch &
The result was the patch never installed. ps -ef | grep patch showed the
job was still running. Any tips would be appreciated.

Chuck

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:57:19 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Chuck Wilkins wrote:

>         I am trying to apply the patches for wu-ftpd beta18. I have
> the patches but, have only used ./install_cluster for Solaris.
>      I issued the command patch wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-18-vr3.patch & The
> result was the patch never installed. ps -ef | grep patch showed the

Kill the job.  it's sitting the the background waiting for keyboard input
it'll never get.

The correct command is a pipe.  Something like:

  cd ~/wu-ftpd/
  patch -p0 < ~/wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-18-vr3.patch
  patch -p0 < ~/wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-18-vr4.patch
  ...

Of course, you're duplicating work already done.  Just grab the tarball
for the version you want from the attic.  If you want VR17 (the current
version), just grab the -vr17 tarball .. it's all patched and ready-to-go.

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