I recently noticed I've got a serious case of missing files on my gateway/firewall/webserver. Running debsums indicates it is only files in the /usr/share/doc/ tree that are missing. What could have caused all these files to disappear? I remember hearing something about a broken tar in unstable, but that shouldn't strike a mostly-stable machine so hard? It runs Debian stable, except for a couple of odd packages from testing and unstable, mostly documentation, but also a few other things like, including quixote, mod_python, scgi, probably apache, aptitude... It has an uptime of 45 days, running an oldish kernel, 2.4.20, which I know has some security issues, but hoped that with no local users, and limited public services, with up-to-date other packages (e.g. ssh), that it isn't remotely exploitable. It has a nice 75GB hard drive, with basically one partition (except for /boot, it's an old Celeron 300A overclocked to 450, needs a boot partition), formatted with reiserfs. I have reinstalled some packages already, though I reinstalled mostly documentation packages. (I pressed L in aptitude on the documentation section.) Any ideas? Amongst other searches, I've searched the debian-user archives for "usr/share/doc", didn't find anything. Sure, I should have been more thorough in my searching, but I have to finish a project for tomorrow... Any ideas will be greatly appreciated, thanks, Hugo van der Merwe
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