On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:06:16AM -0500, Joe Millay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 and included sendmail. Now, I think I
> want to go with qmail, and have read the installation FAQ and the
> docuemtn the FAQ instructed me to read about stopping sendmail. My
> question is:
>
> Would it be better to re-install Linux without sendmail and then install
> qmail? I have not configured sendmail, so suppose it is a wash. But, I
> am new to this email-server thing and I don't want sendmail to interfere
> with qmail.
It really is a wash. You can simply:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
rpm -e sendmail
You'll probably need to finagle some packages that require sendmail, but
it's usually not a big deal. I've --force'd and --nodeps'd many a package
without too much harm... :)
If you're reluctant to uninstall sendmail totally because you're unsure if
it might break something, just stop the sendmail service, remove
/usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail, and link both to
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail (once you have qmail installed).
/pg
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Peter Green
Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin
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