Thank you a ton. That seems to have fixed most of the problems. Now I just need to get exim4 playing with mailman correctly... this is going to be a late night.
-Kurt On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:02:34 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:41:10PM -0500, Kurt Dresner wrote: > > Hi everyone, sorry to bother you. > > > > I just made a huge mistake and blew away everything in /etc/exim4/ > > > > I have tried for several hours now to get the packages reinstalled, > > but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help me out, I'd greatly > > appreciate it. I removed all of the following: > > > > exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light > > > > Now, I can't get them to go back in. I get this error: > > > > tigris:/etc/exim4# apt-get install exim4 > > messages elided > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > tigris:/etc/exim4# ls > > conf.d update-exim4.conf.conf > > > > > > How can I do anything about the config files if exim4-config won't > > even install without them already present? > > > > This is so frustrating. > > > > Please CC me on the reply - I'm not subscribed. > > Try --purge ing them, that deletes all config files, so if the app can > be reinstalled after a purge (If dpkg/apt doesn't depend on it, it would > be a bug to fail installation after a purge) it should work. > > -- > The world's most effective spam filter: > ln -sf /dev/full /var/mail/$USER > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
