on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:21:45AM +0100, Pat Colbeck (pcolbeck@bashq.org) wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > did you do a "dpkg -P leafnode"? If you didn't, the system may > > think those files are there but not. If you do the -P it removes the > > package and it's entries completely. > > > Thanks > > Thanks dpkg -P fixed it, well at least it reinstalled and leafnode-conf came > back. Now I am going to give it a whirl again. > > pat One thing I've found is that leafnode is insanely sensitive to filesystem permissions, and tends to fail silently. Overall I'm pretty underwhelmed by it and am strongly considering putting a real newsserver on my desktop to run a few scheduled pulls. I've had better luck of late -- leafnode typically works, but it has a strong penchent not to fetch all news. Note that my ISP (Earthlink/Mindspring) has notiriously bad Usenet service, which may also be at fault. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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