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Kingsley G. Morse Jr.

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Jan 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/12/97
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Does anyone know of a fix for the error message

/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory

when /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon still exists? It's comming from several
scripts in the 2.0.27 kernel in the Debian release, including

/etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd and
/etc/rc2.d/S99xdm

Does anyone know of a fix?

Thanks,
Kingsley
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Kingsley G. Morse Jr.

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Jan 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/14/97
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cha...@nas.com (Kingsley G. Morse Jr.) writes:

>Does anyone know of a fix for the error message

> /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory

>when /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon still exists? It's comming from several
>scripts in the 2.0.27 kernel in the Debian release, including

> /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd and
> /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm

>Does anyone know of a fix?

It turned out that /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon was fancifully reporting its
own non-existance, when in fact, it couldn't find _perl_. I suppose the kernel
source package, which I installed just prior to this bug, or perhaps one
of the packages it depends on, or suggests, may have renamed perl.

B.A.Mc...@bham.ac.uk

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Jan 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/22/97
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In article <5bbrhn$9...@cleese.nas.com> cha...@nas.com (Kingsley G. Morse Jr.) writes:
>Does anyone know of a fix for the error message
>
> /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory
>
>when /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon still exists?

It probably means that you don't have the interpreter needed to run
/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon.

If /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon is a dynamically linked ELF excuatable
then it's the ELF dynamic linker that's missing.

If /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon is a dynamically linked non-ELF excuatable
then it's the non-ELF dynamic linker that's missing.

If /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon is a perl script then it's perl that's
missing (or in the wrong place).

and so on...

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