Hi! I´m building a RPM package and I need to check if a user exists before install the package. If user exists, the script will create him in the system. Before I compile then, I´ve tried to install it, but the following error is displayed. Is this because I´ve putted a %define into the %pre section? How can I define a variable that I can use on the %defattr directive inside %pre section? --------ERROR----------- *# rpm -ivh noarch/BinName-1.2-4.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47444: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47444: line 5: ` fi' error: %pre(BinName-1.2-4.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping BinName-1.2-4* ------SPEC_FILE--------------- Summary: Bin Summary Name: BinName Version: 1.2 Release: 4 Source0: %{name}.sh Source1: %{name}.conf License: Commercial Group: Applications/Databases BuildArch: noarch %description Bin desc %define oracle_group oinstall %define script_path /opt/jobs/%{name} %pre if ! grep oracle /etc/passwd > /dev/null; then useradd -m -g %{oracle_group} oracle else * %define oracle_group %(groups oracle |awk -F : '{print $2}' |awk '{print $1}')* fi %install mkdir -p %{script_path} cp -pfv %{name}.sh %{name}.conf %{script_path} %files %defattr(0644,oracle,%{oracle_group}) %dir %{script_path} %attr(0755,oracle,%{oracle_group})%{script_path}/%{name}.sh %config %{script_path}/%{name}.conf -- Att. Bruno Galindro da Costa bruno.galindro(a)gmail.com