On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:10:46PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010818 16:54]: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson 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... > > > > While this is indeed a packaging bug, if you don't want something > > started at bootup it's usually better to remove the link from /etc/rc2.d > > instead (or whatever your default runlevel is - probably using > > update-rc.d to manage the links). > > Fair enough... I just ran 'update-rc.d fetchmail remove' and it removed > the scripts for fetchmail from all the various rcX.d directories. > Running 'apt-get install fetchmail' says this: > > Setting up fetchmail (5.8.17-1) ... > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: file does not exist
I didn't say it would solve your problem without reinstating /etc/init.d/fetchmail :) 'dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/fetchmail_5.8.17-1_i386.deb' should do it, I think. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
