Gurus, Is there a HowTo that explains how to compile a *.src.rpm from the SuSE CDs and get an exact duplicate of what SuSE provides? I just tried to rebuild and install the shadow package, and the end result was a non-functioning server. (No big issue, it was a lab/test server.) === What I tried: rpm --rebuild shadow-4.0.2-47.src.rpm (copied from CD 7 of SuSE 8.0) cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCE tar xjf shadow-4.0.2.tar.bz2 (created by rpm above) cd shadow-4.0.2 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr (from shadow.spec) make make install === As I said, everything seemed to work, but when I rebooted I ended up with / mounted readonly!! and KDE did not start up. I remounted / read/write and used Yast2 to re-install shadow. Now everything is fine, but I still want to know how to do this. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer