Re: Exim -> Sendmail -> Exim
One problem I did find after writing this email...
The removal of sendmail via the installation of exim left a few files
behind:
/etc/init.d/sendmail
/etc/cron.d/sendmail
/etc/cron.daily/sendmail
I kept getting error messages from cron b/c it was trying to run a
sendmail script that was no longer around.
Thanks,
Rob
> On 20010613.0906, Mike Renfro said ...
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:42:08PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
>
> > When I typed: apt-get remove sendmail, it wanted to also remove the
> > following: at lilo logrotate mailx mutt sendmail
> >
> > Why would removing sendmail want to take all of that with it?
>
> apt-cache show at | grep Depends: , for example. It should depend on
> mail-transport-agent, or possibly (but not likely) sendmail
> itself. Assuming the packager is competent, each of those packages
> would be broken if there was no way for them to send mail.
>
> So, if you want to:
>
> 1) Remove sendmail, which provides mail-transport-agent, and
>
> 2) Don't offer an alternative MTA
>
> those packages would be removed to prevent you from having a broken
> system.
>
> > I ended up just running: apt-get install exim and that removed
> > sendmail only and set up exim again for me.
>
> In that case, exim conflicts with sendmail, and also provides
> mail-transport-agent. Condition 1 above remains the same, but
> condition 2 has changed. Since there will be no time when you'll be
> missing an MTA, all those other packages stay.
>
> Followups to debian-user, I suppose. Nothing to see here.
>
> --
> Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
> 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
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