On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:29:55AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> David Garamond wrote:
> 
> >>Sorry, a followup question. I deleted /etc/cron.daily/find several 
> >>days ago. How do I get it back? Reinstalling the findutils package 
> >>(using synaptic) doesn't bring it back.
> >
> >>Do I have to purge and install?
> >
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> apt-file search /etc/cron.daily/find
> findutils: etc/cron.daily/find
> findutils: etc/cron.daily/find
> 
> Since you've already reinstalled findutils and that didn't do it, then 
> I'd say, "Yep. Try purging and installing." I guess since this file is 
> in /etc, it's considered a configuration file and therefore doesn't get 
> replaced on a plain reinstall.

You can always extract the file from the .deb with dpkg-deb -x
and then copy it back to etc/cron.daily/


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