Bug#4348: smartlist.postinst fails
Dont know what kind of "hostname" tool you got installed on your machine.
It works on my Debian 1.1 system.
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
bates>Package: smartlist
bates>Status: install ok half-configured
bates>Priority: optional
bates>Section: mail
bates>Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
bates>Version: 3.10-1
bates>Depends: smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent, procmail, libc5 (>= 5.2.18-1)
bates>Description: Versatile and Fast List Processor
bates>
bates>------ Clip here for transcript ------
bates>Setting up smartlist (3.10-1) ...
bates>hostname: illegal option -- q
bates>Usage: hostname [-v] {hostname|-F file} set host name (from file)
bates> domainname [-v] {nisdomain|-F file} set NIS domain name (from file)
bates> hostname [-v] [-d|-f|-s|-a|-i|-y] display formated name
bates> hostname [-v] display host name
bates> hostname -V|--version|-h|--help print info and exit
bates> dnsdomainname=hostname -d, {yp,nis,}domainname=hostname -y
bates> -s, --short short host name
bates> -a, --alias alias names
bates> -i, --ip-address addresses for the host name
bates> -f, --fqdn, --long long host name (FQDN)
bates> -d, --domain DNS domain name
bates> -y, --yp, --nis NIS/YP domain name
bates> -F, --file read host name or NIS domain name from given File
bates> This comand can get or set the host name or the NIS domain name. You can
bates> also get the DNS domain or the FQDN (fully qualified domain name).
bates> Unless you are using bind or NIS for host lookups you can change the
bates> FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) and the DNS domain name (which is
bates> part of the FQDN) in the /etc/hosts file.
bates>/var/lib/dpkg/info/smartlist.postinst: newaliases: command not found
bates>dpkg: error processing smartlist (--configure):
bates> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
bates>Errors were encountered while processing:
bates> smartlist
bates>dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1.
bates>
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