Re: Possible postfix bug
On Monday 07 Mar 2005 11:50, Luca Bedogni wrote:
> Hi
> i tried to uninstall postfix. So I
> apt-get remove --purge postfix
> and the process returned that a file is missing, /etc/init.d/postfix. I
> simply touched the file and re-do the apt-get remove and it worked fine.
> So, is this a bug or simply a mistake that I could have made? Postfix
> worked since last week, because after i installed a mailserver so on this
> notebook i have no more necessity.
> Sorry for my English
update-rc.d <process> remove requires the control file to be present when the
symlinks are removed. Presumably it had already been removed, running touch
re-created it so that the symlinks could be deleted
update-rc.d is not the friendliest of tools but it does the job.
HTH
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