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Re: Where's /bin/kill ?



On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 18:38:47 +0100 (+0000), Petr Cech wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:08:03PM +0000 , Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 20:20:48 +0800 (+0000), Steven Wong wrote:
> > > Did you, by any chance, do a dpkg -i --force-overwrite over the past few
> > > months? I remember some other package other then bsdutils was also providing
> > > /bin/kill a few months ago. I think it was bash. Anyway, a new release soon 
> > > followed which excluded that file (in order to fix the file conflict)... 
> > 
> > I don't think so, also /var/lib/dpkg/info/bsdutils.list on my box doesn't
> > include kill. It's at Version: 1:2.9x-1.
> 
> That's exactly what Steven said. /bin/kill is in procps. If you did
[snip]

Ah - when "some other package than bsdutils also provided /bin/kill" I
presumed that Petr meant that bsdutils was the correct place.

Cheers

Adrian

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