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RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?



Explain to me again how dpkg is going to tell me what package a binary
that's not installed on the system is part of, eh?

I KNOW what it's part of.  It's part of netkit-rpc.  WHY doesn't
netkit-inetd depend on that?

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Marc Wilson
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Wayne Topa [mailto:wtopa@dmcom.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:15 PM
To:	debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:	Re: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?


	Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?
	Date: Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:52:11PM -0800

In reply to:Marc Wilson

Quoting Marc Wilson(marc@moonkingdom.net):
> Here's a question for you... which package owns /usr/bin/rcpinfo on your
> box?  A Woody install of mine doesn't have it, despite having netkit-inetd
> installed.  Now, inetd's init, installed from this package, depends on
that
> executable, but there's no dependency to ensure that it gets installed.

dpkg -S `which rpcinfo`

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