Re: Upgrading our News Server from Debian 1.1 to 1.2
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
miquels >> Fortunately these were symlinks rather than real directories and after the
miquels >> first shock I was able to simply reinstate the symlinks and have a working
miquels >> newsserver again
miquels >
miquels >They were removed _because_ they were symlinks. But you are right, in
miquels >your particular setup this is a problem. But I don't really know what to
miquels >do about this. Ideas?
I think dpkg needs some more intelligence when removing configfiles. A
symlink pointing to a directory is not to be removed.
miquels >However there is a special exception in the /etc/init.d/boot script of
miquels >sysvinit-2.69 that skips the file "innd.pid" when cleaning up /var/run.
miquels >Perhaps the pid file should go into /var/lib/news in this special case.
Perhaps recovery will work now after upgrade to Debian 1.2?
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