On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 12:38:42 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well, > aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually).
Perhaps their forums might help. > I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn > > 'apt -f install' did not fix it, nor did 'dpkg --configure -a'. > > Since it was not essential (and did not install correctly), I tried to > uninstall it, but it also fails: […] > One notices in the failed install attempt (the pastebin link above): > > -------------------------- > adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/sendmail' does not belong to > the user you are currently creating. > update-inetd: warning: cannot add service, /etc/inetd.conf does not exist > -------------------------- > > I had: > -------------------------- > # ls -ld /var/lib/sendmail > drwx------ 2 smmta smmta 4096 Aug 22 15:06 /var/lib/sendmail/ > -------------------------- > > Changing ownership to root did not allow me to uninstall it. What's the output from this attempt? Cheers, David.