Re: fetchmail upgrade problem
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:10:46PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> * Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [010818 16:54]:
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that
> > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want
> > > fetchmail started at bootup...
> >
> > While this is indeed a packaging bug, if you don't want something
> > started at bootup it's usually better to remove the link from /etc/rc2.d
> > instead (or whatever your default runlevel is - probably using
> > update-rc.d to manage the links).
>
> Fair enough... I just ran 'update-rc.d fetchmail remove' and it removed
> the scripts for fetchmail from all the various rcX.d directories.
> Running 'apt-get install fetchmail' says this:
>
> Setting up fetchmail (5.8.17-1) ...
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: file does not exist
I didn't say it would solve your problem without reinstating
/etc/init.d/fetchmail :)
'dpkg -i --force-confmiss
/var/cache/apt/archives/fetchmail_5.8.17-1_i386.deb' should do it, I
think.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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