Mate Wierdl writes:
Ps: this is ridiculous.
The real problem is that /usr/lib/sendmail is serving double duty as an
operating system binary and as an MTA selection switch. A solution to
this problem appears in http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/etc-mta.html.
Well, the above doc says:
Dude! I heard Peter C. Norton wrote all this:
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:57:36PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
Ps: this is ridiculous.
Agreed. It installs sendmail if you tell it not to.
Indeed. It reminds me of one of the versions or releases of M$ Windows 95,
which will install IE 4.0 no
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Kai MacTane wrote:
Dude! I heard Peter C. Norton wrote all this:
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:57:36PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
Ps: this is ridiculous.
Agreed. It installs sendmail if you tell it not to.
Those of us who are made nervous by such extremely tight
Generally, having the machine plugged into the network while you're
upgrading is a big no-no anyway. You either unplug the coax, or deactivate
the eth0 interface doing the upgrade.
When you rebuild a box that way, you better isolate it from the outside
world. Otherwise,
At 13:57 11/01/99 -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
It installs sendmail even if you do NOT tell it to install sendmail in an
INSTALL process. It does this for outbound mail, but doesn't actually set
the daemon for running after boot. Whoever is maintaining the Sendmail RPM
should be
"Peter C. Norton" wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:57:36PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
Ps: this is ridiculous.
Agreed. It installs sendmail if you tell it not to.
Bummer.
-Peter
This is because RedHat feels it pretty much won't function without a
mailer of some sort. Which is
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:39PM -0500, Cris Daniluk wrote:
This is because RedHat feels it pretty much won't function without a
mailer of some sort. Which is relatively true, a lot of things go
through mail in Redhat (or any *nix for that matter) like cron logs,
warnings, etc.
I figured
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... I just want to confirm: when you upgrade to a RH 5.2 system, sendmail
... does get installed on your system, even if you have qmail rpm
... installed with saying "provides MTA, smtpdaemon" and "conflicts
... sendmail".
This behaviour of upgrade process is
Mate Wierdl writes:
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
3) After the upgrade, I remove sendmail, rpm -e sendmail, and reinstall the
Qmail RPM. I either reboot, or manually rerun the initscript to restart
Qmail.
But you have to make sure
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