On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Kent West <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently "aptitude purge exim4" does not remove /etc/exim4 or > /var/lib/exim4. > > Apparently "aptitude install exim4" does not create /etc/exim4 or > /var/lib/exim4. > > Apparently "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" neither creates nor reads from > /etc/exim4. > > I've apparently got wrong perms on /etc/exim4, so I thought I'd just rename > the directory and reconfigure exim4 to fix it, and/or purge/reinstall if > that didn't do it. (I don't need to preserve any current exim4 setup.) > > What process creates these directories? Where does exim4-config store its > info if not in /etc/exim4 (and why doesn't it store it there, where a person > would presumably expect to find exim4 configuration)? > > exim4 is a metapackage; what I needed to play with was exim4-base .
-- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
