On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 05:12:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> if reinstalling the package won't touch your config file you could 
> extract the .deb manually and grab the file yourself i suppose.
> 

If you are using the latest potato dpkg, just:

rm -f /etc/syslog.conf
dpkg --force-confmiss -i syslog.deb

This will make sure that the new syslog.conf gets installed.

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