Very strange behavour when running apt-get (Stable)
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Guys,
Due to the ssh bug I was upgrading all my border machines....
I was running apt-get update/upgrade on a stable machine
The machine is a little odd in that it uses exim as the outbound mail agent
and smtpd as the inbound agent.
Neither of these packages were touched during the upgrade
BUT the /etc/inetd.conf file ended up with exim as the default mail agent
I had to run dpkg-reconfigure smtpd to get the smtpd one back in
then restart inet.
Unfortunately due to pressures in getting mail working again
I forgot to grab the time/date stamps of the inetd.conf file,
but I'm pretty sure it said it was last updated June or July 6th.
It could well be that an upgrade was run at that time & inet wasn't restarted
which would explain the dates on the files, but not why the /etc/inetd.conf file was touched at all!
Surely once I've made changes to this file the package manager shouldn't
revert my changes. (at least without telling me & making a backup copy of the
file!)
Or should I be directing this at the exim/smtpd maintainers?
As I thought it might possibly be a rogue pre/post install script at work?
Any ideas?
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