Re: /etc/rc[0-6].d directories missing in Debian 1.3.1
Huh...that must be it....don't I feel foolish...
I guess I was just nervous because something deleted my inetd.conf file when
I installed 1.3 on a different machine a long time ago......
Thanks....
-Sam
Message from Noel Yap (ivy1@cornell.edu) on 7-24-97:
> On Thu Jul 24 12:45:31 -0700 1997, Sam Ockman <ockman@varesearch.com> wrote:
> > I found the rc directories in /var/backup along with the file rc.symlink
> > there. I put them back where they belong. It still seems important that we
> > figure out what caused this (maybe this belongs in Debian developer...I can
> > never tell...)
> >
> > Anyways, another file that was in /var/backup was rc.symlink....It's nowhere
> > else on the disk. Where does it belong??
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sam
> >
> > Message from Sam Ockman (ockman@varesearch.com) on 7-23-97:
> > > I just installed Debian 1.3.1, and spent several harrowing hours getting
> > > exactly the packages I want (working out dependancies, etc.) I was just
> > > about to celebrate, when bam, I realized there were no /etc/rc[0-6]
> > > directories....
> > >
> > > I'm assuming they haven't been renamed (they are on my Debian 1.3 system)....
> > > Did some package delete them like my inetd.conf file was deleted by a random
> > > package in 1.3 days (might have been pre-release days, so it was
> > > acceptable...) What's going on?
> > >
>
> [...]
>
> Did you by any chance install a package called file-rc?
>
> ~$ dpkg --status file-rc
> Package: file-rc
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: extra
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 27
> Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
> Version: 0.4.1
> Depends: sysvinit
> Description: RC script to use a file /etc/runlevel.conf instead of symlinks
> This changes the standard /etc/init.d/rc and update-rc.d scripts to
> operate on a config-file /etc/runlevel.conf instead, which is easier to
> administrate than symlinks, and is also more flexible.
> .
> The package will automatically convert your existing symlinks into the
> file method on installation, and convert the file back into symlinks on
> removal.
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