*- On 13 May, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Help w/dpkg (no /etc/init.d file)" >> >> While configuring my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts, I (stupidly) removed the >> /etc/init.d entries for a couple of packages (instead of just >> update-rc.d [-n] [-f] name remove). Now, dpkg can't remove, install, >> configure, purge, or even force any operation on those packages. >> >> Is there any way to fix this? >> > > no --force-* option for installing worked? > > If not try this: > > touch the file needed in /etc/init.d. When the install script asks you to > replace it, say yes. > > or the really ugly way, grab each deb that you messed up, unpack it in a temp > directory with ar x foo.deb, and grab the init.d script from the package by > hand. >
or, if you ask nicely for the specific files I am sure people will be more than happy to email them to you. After all they are only small text files. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
