At 13:57 11/01/99 -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>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 means that
>
>1) your sendmail links in /usr/sbin and /usr/lib get mangled.
>2) sendmail is set up to run after boot, so you have to stop the
>sendmail daemon.
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 shot.
Did you use rpm to delete sendmail last time? RPM is supposed to keep a log
of what packages are and are not installed on a system for upgrade
purposes.. but god knows wether it pays a huge attention to this in
sendmail's case.
>Ps: this is ridiculous.
Damn straight!
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