On Tue Aug 28, 2001 at 03:56:48PM -0600, Ed Colmar wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Vincent.
>
> I followed the instructions on the freezer burn webpage... I
> initially installed them all together as indicated on the website.
> Then when it errored, I uninstalled, and reinstalled seperately.
> Both procedures seem to give the same result. No errors on install
> or removal.
>
> Beyond that I didn't do anything special. I changed the name in aliases.
>
> In order to do a fresh install, do I need to wipe out the old dirs?
> rpm -e reported "directory not empty" for everything in /var/qmail
Yes. After you un-install everything (really, you should only need to
uninstall the qmail rpm, and probably fastforward I believe), you'll
have to do a rm -rf /var/qmail. There could be messages in the queue,
etc.... things that are preventing rpm from removing the directory (if
there's anything in there not owned by the qmail rpm, it will not
remove those files or the directories).
I would just try removing the qmail and fastforward (you do need to
remove fastforward first if you want qmail to remove the /var/qmail
directory as fastforward does install some aliases and manpages and
such in /var/qmail).
I would just remove and re-install those two packages (on install, do
qmail first and then fastforward). I'd also run
/etc/cron.hourly/qmail immediately after the install to rebuild the
user database and also force a cdb rebuild by using:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail cdb
That should help you out. Again, I can't see the problem here other
than it being a permission thing; but I've never personally seen or
heard of this happening with my rpms before.
> Thanks again for the reply!
You're welcome.
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