I am attempting the RPM install since I can't figure out why my SMTP host
isn't working when I installed QMail and Uninstalled sendmail.
There are 2 parts of the first step which are confusing.
"b) Make sure that the shadow-utils (see the qmail spec file for what
version is needed) because the qmail rpm's installation uses it. The bind
utils package is needed by the tcpserver-initscripts rpm's installation."
What is being asked here? Are they asking if I completed the previous step
to install the functions rpm? What bind utils package?
"c) If the machine you are installing is a NIS client machine but not a
server, you need to stop ypbind and remove the file corresponding to the nis
domain in /var/yp/binding. I just do
rm -f /var/yp/binding/*"
ok, I do have that directory. But how do I know wether or not I'm an NIS
server? What is an NIS server? I'm serving as an internet gateway to 2
windows boxes. I have Samba running so I can read files off the LINUX box.
The next step is to build qmail so knowing what this means would really
especially if something goes wrong.
Alex (still desperate for virtual mail) Miller
