On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > > 1) Sendmail always fails to shut down when I shut my system down, even right
> > > after a fresh install, with or without all updated packages installed. What
> > > would cause this?
> >
> > Your /etc/hosts is misconfigured, check if your entry in /etc/hosts
> > point to a good address.
>
> Hosts is fine, I think, it just has the 127.0.0.1 entry which I assume is all I
> need since my only networking is a dial-up PPP connection.
>
> I played around with it for a bit though and at one point I tried reinstalling
> the sendmail RPM's, and the rpm command gave a failed dependency message
> saying sendmail conflicts with postfix. Oops, guess there was a downside to
> choosing 'Everything' during installation (I prefer to install everything and
> then remove packages I'm sure I don't need afterward).
>
> I removed the postfix package and reinstalled the sendmail packages, and now it
> shuts down fine. :)
If both postfix and sendmail are installed sendmail doesn't start
properly, which is why it wouldn't shutdown ;)
> > > 2) When I try to install the updated printtool package (using rpm -Uvh
> > > printtool-3.40-5mdk.noarch.rpm) I am given this message:
> > > error: failed dependencies:
> > > >= is needed by printtool-3.40-5mdk
> >
> > it's was a bug with rpm, check the last version (6mdk).
>
> Ah, a newer version since I dl'ed my updates just a couple days ago. :)
> Thanks, I have 6mdk now and it works fine.
>
> -Tom
>
