[plug] samba weirdness

[Sol]

Thanks Tony, that seems to have done the trick!

kind regards,

sol

> 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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