Re: Reappearing Directories?
i think sendmail has a script for ip-up.d to flush the queue.. that would
explain sendmail creating /etc/ppp.
in the log, 'empurium' doesn't seam to understand that all files in /etc and
configuration files and as such all packages that put something to /etc/ppp
will create /etc/ppp, sendmail puts something there.. (i'm not sure but i think
it's for flushing the queue)
a quick run with dlocate on my system shows up the following.
ressu@stradivarius:~ $ dlocate -S /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/
ipppd: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/00-ipppd
postfix: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/postfix
chrony: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/chrony
snort: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/snort
there are 3 non ppp related files in /etc/ppp just for user comfort. postfix
will flush queue, chrony will make chrony go online when the connection is up,
same for snort.
if any of these packages is upgraded the directory will be recreated.
Regards, Sami
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:23:06AM -0700, Rando Christensen wrote:
> Anyway, he claims that /etc/ppp was being RECREATED every time he did an
> 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' ... whether or not the packages
> that would seem to have used it were installed/upgraded.
>
> Unfortunately, he did not, at the time, check with dpkg -S to see what
> package it was in. however, the curious part is the claim that apt/dpkg
> recreated it every time they were run (even if no packages were
> installed/upgraded).. my question is, is this possible? how could it be
> that every time he used apt, he'd get a shiny new /etc/ppp ?
>
> I can't recreate the occurence on my own computer, so i'm unsure of how it
> happened. But, does anyone know how this could be?
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