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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