On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Roberto Mello wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:28:55PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
I accidentally deleted the /etc/init.d/samba script. I thought I
could
get it back by removing samba and reinstalling, but apt did not
regenerate this file. What am I doing wrong?
First I did
# apt-get remove samba samba-common
# apt-get clean
# apt-get install samba
But the samba script did not get recreated. Which step am I missing?
Removing/reinstalling the package just to get one missing file is
overkill. I can think of several possibly better options:
1) apt-get -d install samba-common (download only, then use ar x
samba-common_version.deb to extract it, and copy the file)
<snip>
Even these are overkill, unless configured otherwise APT defaults to
caching all packages that are installed in /var/cache/apt/archive,
besides, if you download the package you are very likely to get a
newer version than what you're running and this could lead to
unexpected behavior.
Use dpkg to extract specific files from the exact version you need
in /var/cache/apt/archives.
-Blake
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