On 26-Feb-2009, Daniel Hornung wrote:
> > this puzzles me. Could you please check that
> >  * dpkg -S reports no owner for /var/run/screen
> 
> # dpkg -S /var/run/screen/
> dpkg: /var/run/screen/ not found.

That's never going to match; the trailing ‘/’ is not part of the name,
and ‘dpkg -S’ therefore won't find that name in the database.

Compare:

    $ dpkg -S /var/run/sshd/
    dpkg: /var/run/sshd/ not found.

    $ dpkg -S /var/run/sshd
    openssh-server: /var/run/sshd

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