Bug#230419: apache: will not install unless /etc/init.d/apache pre-exists

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Hi David,

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, David Morse wrote:

> Linux abu 2.4.22 #1 Sun Sep 21 16:07:44 EDT 2003 i686 unknown.
> Woody with gnome 2 backport.
> A few months ago I had apt-got apache before...maybe the uninstall then
> wasn't clean, because ever since I've been getting mail from Cron:
>
>    /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>    error: error accessing /var/log/apache: No such file or directory
>    error: apache:1 glob failed for /var/log/apache/*.log
>    run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
>
> Does this help?

It clearly shows that there was a previous installation of apache that has
not been purged correctly and I am not sure if that can create the problem
you are facing.

> Hey, can you mail me the default /etc/init.d/apache ?

It is inside the .deb. Just unpack it with dpkg. But i would suggest you
to use apt-get to remove/install packages other than dpkg.
Since you are installing try this:

apt-get --purge remove apache-common
apt-get install apache

and let me know if this will solve the problem

Thanks
Fabio


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