On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:09:32AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote: >
> > Please, encourage your email client to wrap lines. That was rather hard > to read on my 128-wide screen. meto > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Choice 2 below sounds good. Unfortunately, I do not know where the %post and > > %preun scripts are. Nor can I seem to get the find command to zero in on them. > > Can I assume that they can be edited with vi? > > You need the source package which you edit to taste and rebuild. > > > Additinally, my standard way to uninstall a package is to do so from within the > > package tree in Webmin. However, the 'alternatives' package is not contained > > within that list! The man pages do not indicate such, but I suspect that there is > > an unistall parameter like RPM --uninstall <package name> available? > As always, > rpm --help > man rpm > > > I have some reservations about the use of non-standard packages and > procedures with vendor's releases. > [snip] > > Red Hat, in RHL 7.x, ships one MTA, and that is sendmail. Some people don't like it :-) > > If you don't believe that MTA is suitable for your use, and you are > using Red Hat Linux, then I suggest you look at the exim package shipped > with Red Hat Linux 8.0. The _only_ reason I suggest this as the > first-choice replacement is that it is reasonable to suppose Red Hat > will include it in the next release of RHL for S/390 & zSeries, and so > any additional maintenance issues will terminate at that time. RedHat >= 7.3 is shipped with postfix. I don't see any exim package on a nearby RH80 mirror. -- Tzafrir Cohen http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sms: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
