One problem I did find after writing this email... The removal of sendmail via the installation of exim left a few files behind:
/etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/cron.d/sendmail /etc/cron.daily/sendmail I kept getting error messages from cron b/c it was trying to run a sendmail script that was no longer around. Thanks, Rob > On 20010613.0906, Mike Renfro said ... > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:42:08PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > > > When I typed: apt-get remove sendmail, it wanted to also remove the > > following: at lilo logrotate mailx mutt sendmail > > > > Why would removing sendmail want to take all of that with it? > > apt-cache show at | grep Depends: , for example. It should depend on > mail-transport-agent, or possibly (but not likely) sendmail > itself. Assuming the packager is competent, each of those packages > would be broken if there was no way for them to send mail. > > So, if you want to: > > 1) Remove sendmail, which provides mail-transport-agent, and > > 2) Don't offer an alternative MTA > > those packages would be removed to prevent you from having a broken > system. > > > I ended up just running: apt-get install exim and that removed > > sendmail only and set up exim again for me. > > In that case, exim conflicts with sendmail, and also provides > mail-transport-agent. Condition 1 above remains the same, but > condition 2 has changed. Since there will be no time when you'll be > missing an MTA, all those other packages stay. > > Followups to debian-user, I suppose. Nothing to see here. > > -- > Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, > 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
