[rescue] pkgadd failure - checkinstall

[Derrick D. Daugherty]

It's rumored that around Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:39:41AM -0500
s at avoidant.org wrote:
> 
> So I go to /var/sadm/patch/108869-11/log and see this:
> 
> /export/home/sambo/8_Recommended/108869-11/SUNWmibii/install/checkinstall:
> /export/home/sambo/8_Recommended/108869-11/SUNWmibii/install/checkinstall:
> cannot open
> pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
> Dryrun complete.
> No changes were made to the system.

this is because somewhere in the previous path is not readable by the
utility.  it can't getcwd()   I suspect you're paranoid and sambo/ is
0750 or 0700

^D