On Friday 22 June 2007 13:41, Dirk wrote: > Is there any chance to find out in which package the start-stop-daemon > is w/o reinstalling the whole debian distribution and hopeing that it > will be installed automatically? In my Etch system, start-stop-daemon comes from the dpkg package: $ dpkg -S $(which start-stop-daemon) dpkg: /sbin/start-stop-daemon $ The answer is the "dpkg" before the colon. --Mike Bird