[plug] samba weirdness

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Sol wrote:

> 
> I'm not even sure if this is a problem or not. I just did an ordinary 
> apt-get upgrade on a Debian Woody box (didn't touch the sources or 
> nothing) and one of the 29 packages upgraded was samba. When it 
> unpacked it complained:
> 
> The file /etc/samba/debian_config does not exist! There is something 
> wrong with the installation of Samba on this system. Please reinstall 
> Samba. I can't continue.
> 
> /etc/init.d/samba restart does the same thing. So 
> I "touch /etc/samba/debian_config" and restarted samba and this time it 
> works! But it's an empty file. I'm worried that this might cause 
> problems in the future but don't know anything about this.
> 
> To quote a great mind: Please explain?

Why it's gone I cannot say but the contents of that file tell samba
how to run (stand alone vs inetd) ... you should be able to get it back with

dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low samba


Yours Tony

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