Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

2002-01-31 Thread Max Horn
At 23:14 Uhr -0500 30.01.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >Kyle, your /etc directory is not actually gone. > >On darwin/Mac OS X, /etc is actually a symbolic link to /private/etc. >So if you do: > cd /; sudo ln -s private/etc . >everything will be back to normal. > >The reason this happened is tha

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

2002-01-31 Thread Max Horn
At 4:18 Uhr + 31.01.2002, Kyle Moffett wrote: [...] >> >>The reason this happened is that your dhcp package had the directory "/etc" >>in the .deb file (as I warned you on the package submission tracker). >>When you removed it, dpkg removed /etc...since this was a symlink, only >>the symlink

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

2002-01-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
> Kyle, your /etc directory is not actually gone. > > On darwin/Mac OS X, /etc is actually a symbolic link to /private/etc. > So if you do: > cd /; sudo ln -s private/etc . > everything will be back to normal. DAMMIT! NOOO (This was sent just after I did a complete reformat

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

2002-01-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Kyle, your /etc directory is not actually gone. On darwin/Mac OS X, /etc is actually a symbolic link to /private/etc. So if you do: cd /; sudo ln -s private/etc . everything will be back to normal. The reason this happened is that your dhcp package had the directory "/etc" in the .deb file (as

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

2002-01-30 Thread Justin Hallett
did you do a dpkg --purge of a pkg that had soemthing in /etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I know this shouldn't have happened, but dpkg deleted my /etc directory, >didn't even warn me that it was full. It told me about /sbin, but not >/etc ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·.,

[Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

2002-01-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
I know this shouldn't have happened, but dpkg deleted my /etc directory, didn't even warn me that it was full. It told me about /sbin, but not /etc I was testing a package I was making, and I fixed a little prob with a file location. Then I did fink rebuild dhcp, and the thing killed /etc G