Re: Cern-httpd and apache

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Erick Branderhorst writes ("Cern-httpd and apache"):
> I had a problem in removing cern-httpd. I couldn't remove the file
> /etc/init.d/httpd. The transcripts are shown below. I had apache
> installed. I removed and purged apache and then purged
> cern-httpd. This was succesfull. 

I suspect that both apache and cern-httpd use /etc/init.d/httpd.

This is a bad thing, because it (a) confuses dpkg rather and (b)
prevents you from installing both packages and having different
/etc/init.d scripts for them (easily).

Ian.