On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:48:30AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > tags 319313 unreproducible > tags 319313 moreinfo > thankyou > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:41:10PM -0500, Craig P. Steffen wrote: > > One of the recent updates to procps apparently over-wrote the > > /etc/sysctl.conf file (I believe without prompting). For users with a > You better be real sure about that because sysctl.conf has been a > conffile for a very long time (years, but not sure how many).
> $ dpkg -l procps | grep procps > ii procps 3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities > $ grep /etc/sysctl.conf /var/lib/dpkg/info/procps.conffiles > /etc/sysctl.conf > Your situation would not be the only situation where overwriting > procps would cause bad things to happen. In addition the conffile is > there, so if dpkg has decided to ignore conffile settings then that > would cause an even larger nightmare. I've heard nothing else yet > and this version of procps was uploaded in January. > Just in case it was a powerpc-specific build problem, I also checked one > of Debian's powerpc hosts and the conffile is identical to my alpha and > i386 ones (bruckner, unstable chroot if other developers were > wondering). > In short, I'm not that convinced this is a bug. Rather, I'm quite convinced that it isn't a bug. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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