On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:04:04AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote:
> well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience.
>
> I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step carefully by
> hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I
> could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote email. I was
> sure that I had done something wrong with the remove sendmail steps since my
> system did not have things configured exactly as described in the INSTALL,
> and I wasn't that confident in my guesses.
>
> So last night I took down the RPM's (a whole bunch of them, and set the
> whole thing up, deleting my qmail install, rpm'ing the src, then rpming the
> required preinstall stuff, and finally rpming qmail).
>
> When I rebooted it worked and was very different. There was a whole new
> qmail process running when I did ps-aux, there was no /var/qmail/rc file at
> all, there was a whole slew of extra .qmail-*** files in my alias folder,
> and lo and behold it worked, in particular, I could now send myself mail
> from the outside world.
>
> So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
> norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the only way to
> get that right now, is by using RPM's.
Redhat systems are no different from anything else, and there's nothing to
preclude installing qmail from the tarball. I've installed qmail on several
Redhat boxes, always from the tarball. You follow the qmail installation
instructions, remove (or at least disable the script that starts) sendmail, and
start your qmail stuff from some script that runs at bootup, and you're in
business. This is exactly how it's installed on any system.
You do, of course, have to know a little about how things start up at boot time
on a Redhat system, but you'd have to know that about any system.
Chris
