On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want > > fetchmail started at bootup... > > > > Here's the main part of the error message: > > > > Preparing to replace fetchmail 5.8.16-1 (using > > .../fetchmail_5.8.17-1_i386.deb) ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.prerm: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: No such file > > or directory > > Unpacking replacement fetchmail ... > > Setting up fetchmail (5.8.17-1) ... > > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: file does not exist > > dpkg: error processing fetchmail (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > fetchmail > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Check the fetchmail preinst and postinst install scripts under > /var/lib/dpkg/info. See if you can isolate the lines checking for these > files. This may be a packaging bug.
Probably; the file SHOULD be there, but the scripts are not supposed to fail just because it is not. If it is indeed a bug, I'll fix it ASAP. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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