smail gone made

[Rick Hawkins]

Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail.  Coming in this morning, 
there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd.  Apparently smail was 
no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail 
begain appearing.  But Every message is accompanied by an error message like 
this:


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what in the world is a reference to  /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal doing in the 
package?





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Re: smail gone made

[David Gaudine]

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:

 Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail.  Coming in this morning, 
 there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd.  Apparently smail was 
 no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail 
 begain appearing.  But Every message is accompanied by an error message like 
 this:

I had to rerun smail-config and specify using a daemon instead of
an inet.d entry.  (I got that from reading debian-devel.) But, apparently
you were already using a daemon; there's obviously something here I don't
understand, but try what I did anyway.


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Re: smail gone made

[Rick Hawkins]

David Guadine wrotem,

 I had to rerun smail-config and specify using a daemon instead of
 an inet.d entry.  (I got that from reading debian-devel.) But, apparently
 you were already using a daemon; there's obviously something here I don't
 understand, but try what I did anyway.

Just tried this, but no dice.  I'm still getting the error messages. 
But I find the reference to  /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal suspicious, as I don't 
think debian packages use /usr/local at all, do they?




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