Re: webmin problem
I did touch /etc/init.d/webmin and reinstalled webmin. It never gave me
a message about overwriting anything. Now I have a zero byte file in my
/etc/init.d/ directory.
Any other ideas would be very much appreciated.
Thx
On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 00:25, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Mike Kordik wrote:
>
> > Anyway, I did apt-get remove and then apt-get install. It didn't fix the
> > problem. I noticed after a remove there are still webmin files hanging
> > around so I deleted them by hand.
>
> Don't ever do that. The package system is not psychic. It can't tell if
> you've moved files around behind its' back.
>
> > Now it won't even install correctly.
>
> See that's what happens. If you want to compile your own stuff do it in
> /usr/local as that is guaranteed to be off-limits to the packaging system.
>
> > It doesn't install /etc/init.d/webmin
>
> try doing
>
> touch /etc/init.d/webmin
>
> and reinstall webmin. You should get a message about whether you want to
> keep your existing file or install the package maintainers one. Say yes
> to that.
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
>
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