Hi folks, I asked for help on this problem last week but since having to change addresses suddenly I didn't get any replies (you might have seen them bouncing) so here it is again. My linux box is almost unusable because of this so I look forward to some help on the matter.
1: Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. From previous experience of this I had already the .deb file for io,libnet and dpkg-ftp. Installing these using dpkg -i managed to install them correctly and dselect shows no errors or files need "configured". Perl also appears to be installed OK , though I don't believe it (more on that later). When attempting to use the ftp option of Dselect I get this error; dselect (subprocess): unable to run query/setup script process `/usr/lib/methods/ftp/setup': no such file or directory query/setup script returned error exit status 2. obviously I've knackered it up through all the install/remove/install/remove stuff I was doing trying to get round those daft dependancies. 2: This problem is worse since it stops logging and halts mail delivery. When my box boots I get the following errors showing multiple times as the init process attempts to run the various daemons. eg. /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. This is the same for all daemons attempting to run.. When just sitting as root and trying to execute "start-stop-daemon" frmo ANY directory the following error occurs. bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. This is odd since it's finding the correct program and the path for it but is saying it can't find it. Spook! I've looksed in /usr/sbin and start-stop-daemon is definitly in there. Help much appreciated. I've went so long now (for a newbie) without reinstalling that I don't really want to start over again. Brian Skreeg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fish Technologies Ltd.) Connecting via U-Net Ltd