wow!!!! Johnny Hughes wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> thanks for replying. >> >> R P Herrold wrote: >>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>>> I followed the setup instructions from >>>> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ >>> >>> ... the author is known to me ;) >>> >>>> Assuming that you are in /etc/sudoers!!!! >>>> And then asked for a password. >>>> Which password? My userid or root's? I tried both and after 3 tries >>>> got: >>> >>>> me is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported. >>>> removing '/home/me/rpmbuild/BUILD/hipl--main--2.6/hipl-1.0.4' >>> >>> The end user account password is what sudo is looking for ... as >>> noted, it seems you had not configured /etc/sudoers to include you. >>> >>>> So I look at /etc/sudoers and do not understand what I am suppose >>>> to do there. >>> >>> A sample entry which permits a single user machine to do root >>> operations when needed, but to stay in its non-priv'd mode most of >>> the time looks like something as simple as: >>> >>> [herrold at new ~]$ sudo grep herrold /etc/sudoers >>> Password: [here, the end user 'herrold's password] >>> herrold ALL=(ALL) ALL >>> [herrold at new ~]$ >>> >>> ... We need root rights to read /etc/sudoers, or else it would have >>> not been needed except for teaching reasons. >>> >>>> A bit of help would be greatly appreciated! >>> >>> Hope this helps .. I wonder a bit at your description of untarring, >>> ./configure'ing, etc ... that is not part of rpm building from .spec >>> or SRPM. >> Here is what I was told to do: >> >> wget http://hipl.hiit.fi/hipl/hipl.tar.gz >> >> you can build on CentOS by executing: >> >> tar xvzf hipl.tar.gz >> cd hipl--main--2.6 >> ./autogen.sh >> ./configure >> make rpm >> >> ("make install" works too, but installs to /usr/local by default) >> >> Software requirements are listed here: >> >> http://infrahip.hiit.fi/hipl/manual/ch02.html > > OK ... after several changes to the spec file, I got this to build. > The process was rather intense, so rather than trying to document it I > will post a good SRPM after I verify that all the build requirements > are there and it will also build the same in mock. > > So, in a couple minutes expect a link to download a GOOD SRPM for this > package that builds on centos-5 i386 and x86_64 I am SOOOO thankful. You will definitely get a line of recognition for my IETF presentation on SIP over HIP over Teredo in two weeks! I should not have been sooo schrunched for time. I waited for management to get me the hardware for this 'experiment', and 4 months later it is finally ordered; I have had to cobble gear together....