Re: qmail - build and install on Potato
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:15:39PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> I'm back again!
>
> Still trying to get qmail installed so that I can have a look at it.
>
> On ftp.debian, I found qmail-src_1.03-14.deb ( and also the
> dependency ucspi-tcp-src_0.84-1.deb). The ucspi package installs
> without problems - I used 'dpkg -i ucspi etc' and then 'build-ucspi
> etc' followed by 'install'
>
> qmail seems to build OK, then goes straight into install without
> prompting but fails with the error message seen at the end of the
> following extract from messages in the kvt I used.
>
You need to delete all qmail* entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
The install will put new ones back in.
-- Mark
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