>>>>> "hanasaki" == hanasaki  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    hanasaki> I upgraded to woody and have a package that wont die.  I
    hanasaki> cant remove it or reinstall it.  Help please.

    hanasaki> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[46]~ dpkg --purge --force-all snort
    hanasaki> (Reading database ... 29348 files and directories
    hanasaki> currently installed.)  Removing snort ...
    hanasaki> /etc/init.d/snort: var: command not found dpkg: error
    hanasaki> processing snort (--purge): subprocess pre-removal
    hanasaki> script returned error exit status 127 postinst called
    hanasaki> with unknown argument `abort-remove' Errors were
    hanasaki> encountered while processing: snort [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[47]~

Try:

touch /etc/init.d/snort && chmod +x /etc/init.d/snort 

after the first removal attempt.
That should do the trick.

HTH,

MH
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