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Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root



On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:49:19PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > > Sounds like you want dpkg --force-confmiss.
> > > 
> > > I wouldn't expect that since the documentation states:
> > > 
> > >  confmiss: Always install  a  missing  configuration
> > >               file.  This  is  dangerous, since it means not pre-
> > >               serving a change (removing) made to the file.
> > > 
> > > How could it be dangerous to install a *missing* configuration file?
> > 
> > If the default configuration data in the file do something you don't want.
> 
> For example...

autofs. First thing I do when I install autofs in at networked environmemt is
rm /etc/auto.*
because I want to use the NIS maps.

Greetings,
Oliver
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Oliver Kurth
mailto:kurth@leinekanal.de                         http://leinekanal.de

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