qmail distro and UID

1999-09-09 Thread Kevin Waterson
I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packages. If I use the qmail-run-4-4.i386.rpm functions-3-3.i386.rpm What should I use

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Kevin Waterson writes: > I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. > of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. > I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packages. Ask redhat to change the dependency from "sen

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:42:08AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Kevin Waterson writes: > > I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. > > of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. > > I have been looking and reading up on qmail-ru

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kevin Waterson writes: > > I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. > > of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. > > I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packa

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Sam
Frank D. Cringle writes: > It looks like they have changed it to smtpdaemon in Redhat 6.0, > although I am not an rpm expert, so maybe I misunderstand. > > $ rpm -q --whatrequires sendmail > no package requires sendmail > $ rpm -q --whatrequires smtpdaemon > fetchmail-5.0.0-1 > mutt-0.95.4u

RE: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread David Harris
Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > That has been the case at least since 4.0. The problem is that Red Hat's > installer forces a sendmail install no matter what, even if another package > provides smtpdaemon. If you are going to be installing a bunch of machines, you might invest in modifying the

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
Sam wrote: > > > That has been the case at least since 4.0. The problem is that Red Hat's > installer forces a sendmail install no matter what, even if another package > provides smtpdaemon. Yes, but in this case I have removed the sendmail rpms from the distro Kevin

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
David Harris wrote: > > > If you are going to be installing a bunch of machines, you might invest in > modifying the base package by modifying the installer's package groupings so > that qmail is installed instead of sendmail. You see, sendmail is in the "base" > group which is always installed.

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread mw
>What should I use in the way of var-qmail. >My understanding is that it needs to be compiled on each machine, but >as this is a fresh install, but maybe used for upgrades, I am concerned >about >UID's. Should I simply create a .rpm from the source supplied or can >someone >recommend a better meth

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-11 Thread Mr. Christopher F. Miller
Yes, it is your distribution so you could use whatever uids/gids you want. However, that will make changing systems to and from it and adding packages from other package managers to it difficult and error prone. I'd strongly suggest you use the same userspace as one of the major distributions.

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-11 Thread Kevin Waterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since this will be your distribution, you can just reserve the qmail > uids. In this case, you can get away with a very simple spec file to > build qmail (I can tell you if you need it). That would be most helpful > > But you might be concerned about people who would l