Hi all, Okies based on suggestions from here I am removing exim from a virtual server and replacing with nullmailer as we dont need a complete mail system like exim provides.
1. I tried it on my laptop as a testand it went quite well. By just asking Debian to install nullmailer it knew that it had to remove exim which it did. That is I didntn have to remove exim (which would have removed the logrotate) and then install nullmailer. Here is the problem 2. I then tried it on the virtuous server.. $ sudo apt-get install nullmailer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim The following NEW packages will be installed: nullmailer 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/68.6kB of archives. After unpacking 1106kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: exim: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: at depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed. mailx depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed. (Reading database ... 11568 files and directories currently installed.) Removing exim ... Stopping MTA: exim. /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Starting MTA: exim. Errors were encountered while processing: exim E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ The reason why it barfed at trying to run update-inetd is that the package netlit-inetd is not there as its been removed by me. The reason why its removed is that the server is running nothing from inetd and does not have an inetd. How should I go about exim to nullmailer - I dont want to break the nice server by using --force without seeking advice here. I have backed up exim.conf Mike UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
