Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-09 Thread Lucas Bergman
> > That is called "trolling." Please don't. > > But it more appropriately should have been called a "badly worded > question from a previous staunch supporter of Red Hat before they > became what they are today". That's fair enough. I rescind my accusation of trolling... :) Lucas -- Lucas Ber

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:37:32 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > I think that most of us would much rather see a question phrased as, > > "I would like to do X. How can I do so using Debian > [stable|testing|unstable]?" > > than, > > "RedHat did X for me. Why can't Debian?" Well, unless it

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Brad Stockdale
Once again, I do apologize for the wrongly worded question... I can see now in retrospect how it could be an annoying question... I'll be more careful in the future. Sorry, Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-08, Brad Stockdale penned: > >>That is called "trolling." Please don't. > > But it more appropriately should have been called a "badly worded > question from a previous staunch supporter of Red Hat before they > became what they are today". > > Trolling, AFAIK is a comment used specific

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Brad Stockdale
That is called "trolling." Please don't. But it more appropriately should have been called a "badly worded question from a previous staunch supporter of Red Hat before they became what they are today". Trolling, AFAIK is a comment used specifically to instigate an altercation of some type. Th

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Michael D Schleif
Brad Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:01:08:13:32:36-0500] scribed: > Hello all, > >I am a newbie to Debian and I made a booboo.. While prepping a system > for production use, I accidentally overwrote /usr/include/unix.h with the > unix.h that comes from the imap2002e library (used by PHP

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Lucas Bergman
> I am a newbie to Debian and I made a booboo.. While prepping a > system for production use, I accidentally overwrote > /usr/include/unix.h with the unix.h that comes from the imap2002e > library (used by PHP to enable it to use POP and IMAP protocols)... I'm a little bit confused, since neither

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Brad Stockdale
Man... Hmmm. If there's not then I really hosed up php somehow. Lol... I'll give it another whirl to see what happens. Thanks for the quick reply!! Brad At 01:47 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:32:36PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote: >I am a newbie to Debian and I made a boo

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:32:36PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote: >I am a newbie to Debian and I made a booboo.. While prepping a system > for production use, I accidentally overwrote /usr/include/unix.h with the > unix.h that comes from the imap2002e library (used by PHP to enable it to > use

Re: dpkg and ownership of a file

2004-01-08 Thread Brad Stockdale
Hello all, I am a newbie to Debian and I made a booboo.. While prepping a system for production use, I accidentally overwrote /usr/include/unix.h with the unix.h that comes from the imap2002e library (used by PHP to enable it to use POP and IMAP protocols)... So, now I cant get some stuf