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From: Snob Art Genre <brosenga@calvin.pitzer.edu>
To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: odd pkg problem
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Don Yuniskis wrote:

> It seems that Levels of Indirection said:
> > 
> > After having some trouble with sudo (about which I might be asking later 
> > if this doesn't resolve it), I tried deleting and reinstalling it.  It 
> > now seems to be in some sort of odd in-between state.  pkg_add tells me 
> > it's already there, but pkg_delete says it isn't.  Any ideas?  Thanks in 
> > advance.
> 
> try deleting the /var/db/pkg/sudo*/* files for it (or, rename the directory
> if you don't want to risk losing the directory) and then reinstalling.
> 
> --don
> 

Thanks!  I did this and it worked.  It left me with one problem -- the
file that visudo edits is completely different from
/usr/local/etc/sudoers.  And modifications to the former do not affect the
latter.


 Ben