Re: Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-15 Thread Rich Renomeron
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > This is untested, since naturally I'm not about to hose my system for a > complete stranger. :-) > > cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives > update-alternatives --auto * Thanks for the advice. It *almost* worked. Here's what worked: #!/

Re: Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
This is untested, since naturally I'm not about to hose my system for a complete stranger. :-) cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives update-alternatives --auto * Rich Renomeron wrote: > Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems > very well, and when I recen

Regenerating /etc/alternatives

2001-02-13 Thread Rich Renomeron
Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems very well, and when I recently did a full restore, my /etc/alternatives directory got clobbered. Is there a quick way to regenerate it, other than manually going through it (either using update-alternatives or by hand)? If I