Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Sam
Dave Sill writes: That's why I prefer to install qmail from the directions in INSTALL. Sure, the rpm's make it easier to *install*, but, IMHO, they make it harder to *maintain* since you don't know exactly what they did. Yes you do. rpm -q -l -vv $PACKAGE -- Sam

Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Pike wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 01:38:12PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Before installing, do: # mkdir /var/qmail /etc/qmail # ln -s /etc/qmail /var/qmail/control # mkdir /usr/doc/qmail # ln -s /usr/doc/qmail /var/qmail/doc # ln -s /usr/bin /var/qmail ln -s /usr/bin /var/qmail/bin, I

Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
"Sam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why I prefer to install qmail from the directions in INSTALL. Sure, the rpm's make it easier to *install*, but, IMHO, they make it harder to *maintain* since you don't know exactly what they did. Yes you do. rpm -q -l -vv $PACKAGE That only tells you

Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Pike
Hi That was my original complaint ... the qmail rpm swoops itself all over your fs symlinking every possible place where someone would possibly look for it. I haven't installed from RPM so I may be wrong, but surely there are only two locations for each file, one in the FSSTND location and

Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Keith Burdis
On Wed 1999-04-28 (20:31), Pike wrote: Hi That was my original complaint ... the qmail rpm swoops itself all over your fs symlinking every possible place where someone would possibly look for it. I haven't installed from RPM so I may be wrong, but surely there are only two locations

Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:31:32 +0200, Pike wrote: Overall conclusion: _don't_use_the_rpm_to_install_qmail_ At least, not my build, which was done by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry david. Overall conclusion: If you can do it better and you care about it, don't use rpm. If you can't do it better or you