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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
>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
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.
[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
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