I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem.
Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehistory as I did should have cleared this, but it didn't. In the end I had to delete history.dir and replace it with the "clean" one from the package. Really, I don't think the inn package should corrupt history.dir, and would consider this a bug. Another bug for the maintainer: the new ppp package prevented me from running the pon script as non-root. It happens that I knew how to fix this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals), but a beginner would be stumped. And another: upgrading the DOSEMU package not only replaced my /etc/dosemu/conf file, but *wiped it out*, forcing me to reconfigure from scratch. I have good backups, but again someone else might have had the program rendered unusable. I consider all three of these significant bugs. The first one wasted a full day of my time, not something I consider trivial. Thanks for listening. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
