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Re: bind[9] not installing all files



On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 02:31:52PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> For some reason, when I install bind or bind9, many files that should
> be in /etc/bind are not placed there (only "named.conf" and
> "rndc.conf" are placed there), although "dpkg --listfiles bind9" says
> that many other files should be there (such as "db.root").
> 
> Does anyone know why this might be?

If you remove conffiles manually, dpkg will not reinstall them
automatically (since sometimes it makes a difference whether the file is
there or not). Use the --force-confmiss flag to dpkg to reinstate them.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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