Re: locatedb is world readable
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:29:55AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> David Garamond wrote:
>
> >>Sorry, a followup question. I deleted /etc/cron.daily/find several
> >>days ago. How do I get it back? Reinstalling the findutils package
> >>(using synaptic) doesn't bring it back.
> >
> >>Do I have to purge and install?
> >
> westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> apt-file search /etc/cron.daily/find
> findutils: etc/cron.daily/find
> findutils: etc/cron.daily/find
>
> Since you've already reinstalled findutils and that didn't do it, then
> I'd say, "Yep. Try purging and installing." I guess since this file is
> in /etc, it's considered a configuration file and therefore doesn't get
> replaced on a plain reinstall.
You can always extract the file from the .deb with dpkg-deb -x
and then copy it back to etc/cron.daily/
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Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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