Huh...that must be it....don't I feel foolish... I guess I was just nervous because something deleted my inetd.conf file when I installed 1.3 on a different machine a long time ago......
Thanks.... -Sam Message from Noel Yap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7-24-97: > On Thu Jul 24 12:45:31 -0700 1997, Sam Ockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found the rc directories in /var/backup along with the file rc.symlink > > there. I put them back where they belong. It still seems important that we > > figure out what caused this (maybe this belongs in Debian developer...I can > > never tell...) > > > > Anyways, another file that was in /var/backup was rc.symlink....It's nowhere > > else on the disk. Where does it belong?? > > > > Thanks > > Sam > > > > Message from Sam Ockman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7-23-97: > > > I just installed Debian 1.3.1, and spent several harrowing hours getting > > > exactly the packages I want (working out dependancies, etc.) I was just > > > about to celebrate, when bam, I realized there were no /etc/rc[0-6] > > > directories.... > > > > > > I'm assuming they haven't been renamed (they are on my Debian 1.3 > > > system).... > > > Did some package delete them like my inetd.conf file was deleted by a > > > random > > > package in 1.3 days (might have been pre-release days, so it was > > > acceptable...) What's going on? > > > > > [...] > > Did you by any chance install a package called file-rc? > > ~$ dpkg --status file-rc > Package: file-rc > Status: install ok installed > Priority: extra > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 27 > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 0.4.1 > Depends: sysvinit > Description: RC script to use a file /etc/runlevel.conf instead of symlinks > This changes the standard /etc/init.d/rc and update-rc.d scripts to > operate on a config-file /etc/runlevel.conf instead, which is easier to > administrate than symlinks, and is also more flexible. > . > The package will automatically convert your existing symlinks into the > file method on installation, and convert the file back into symlinks on > removal. -- VA Research Linux Workstations | The VArStation YMP Workstation | Two 266 Mhz Pentium IIs http://www.varesearch.com | 128MB ECC - 4.5Gb UW SCSI-3 - Matrox Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 | RedHat Linux, more - $5261 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .