on Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:56:18PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh insinuated: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > upgraded to 3.0 from a potato-woody hybrid yesterday, and noticed that > > > > orange:~> fetchmail -a > > 179 messages for nori at sccs.swarthmore.edu (662992 octets). > > reading message nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu:1 of 179 (4192 octets) > > ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You don't have a MTA > running. Fix that. I suggest postfix, but exim is also a very good > choice. If you had one, it may have been uninstalled during the > upgrade. oh, of course -- i think what i did was choose to not configure postfix during the many "do you want to overwrite your old config files" options ... so i have postfix, it's just not configured right. i'm assuming. question is, how do i configure it without removing not only it, but all the programs that depend on it (mutt, anacron, &c.)? `dpkg --configure postfix` tells me it's already configured (which it is, just wrongly), and executing postfix as root gives me the error: orange:~# postfix postfix: fatal: chdir(/usr/libexec/postfix): No such file or directory which just reaffirms to me that it's not configured properly. so i thought to remove and reinstall it in order to get the prompted again to configure it properly. this does seem like a hack, though, and anyway i don't want to remove all its dependencies. what's the best way to reconfigure it? thanks again, </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^
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