Help I deleted my cron.daily files

[Knute Johnson]

On 7/4/2011 3:03 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 04/07/11 05:50 PM, PleegWat wrote:
>> On 07/04/2011 11:12 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> I did a stupid thing and deleted my cron.daily files. Does anybody know
>>> where they come from so I can recreate them?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> On the command line, run the following:
>>
>> dpkg --search '/etc/cron.daily/*'
>>
>> That should list all packages storing files in the /etc/cron.daily
>> directory, and which files they store.
>>
>> Works here, although of course I still have the files...
>>
>> I know there's also something on the command line to then reinstall
>> those packages, but I can't find it offhand. Possibly --install --force.
>
>
> aptitude reinstall <whatever>
>
>

I tried that but it doesn't reinstall the cron.daily files.  I tried 
using dpkg --purge and then using aptitude to install and that found 
some of them.  I guess their could have been files left over in here 
that weren't being used any more.

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Knute Johnson