hi donald, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:28:50AM -0700, Donald Perkovich wrote: > Unfortunately, the machine runs off by itself most of the time so I am > not exactly clear what happened when. What I do know is that a perl > program I have that logs info in the database started to fail because > it couldn't authenticate. This started about the same time I did a > > # aptitude update > # aptitude upgrade > > I try to update the system about every week or two in this way. When > it reported the changes it was about to make, I just told it Yes. I > haven't taken much time to understand the Debian package system and > tools so it all seems like magic to me.
during the upgrade process, did you ever see a prompt like this? > Configuration file `/etc/mysql/my.cnf' > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : background this process to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** my.cnf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? and answer Y? sean --
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