"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 relatively true, a lot of things go
through mail in Redhat (or any *nix for that matter) like cron logs,
warnings, etc. By not installing sendmail, you're just telling it not to
configure it as an outbound mailer. It just configures it for internal
mailing only. My suggestion to RedHat would be to give users the option
to specify they already have a mailer, or will be installing one
immediately after the setup process is complete. They probably won't,
but hey that's my suggestion :)
Cris Daniluk
Digital Services Network
