On %M 0, Bob Bernstein wrote > Having bulled my way through the extermination of emacs20, I went ahead with a > massive apt-get update/upgrade, 129 meg all tolled. The cable modem is doing > its thing with valor. > > Now I notice syslogd has been stopped so I peek into /etc/init.d and behold a > bevy of new scripts eg 'whutever.dpkg-new'. Without looking further into the > matter, they mostly appear to be of identical length to their 'old' forebears. > > What is the prescribed course of action with these? Copy them over into their > working names and restart the respective process? Or has that been done? >
If apt-get is still running, this is normal. These have been unpacked from the packages that are downloaded, and should be moved into place as appropriate at a later stage. If they're still there after apt-get finishes, try dpkg --pending --configure John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
