Re: exim4 config files
Thank you a ton. That seems to have fixed most of the problems. Now
I just need to get exim4 playing with mailman correctly... this is
going to be a late night.
-Kurt
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:02:34 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:41:10PM -0500, Kurt Dresner wrote:
> > Hi everyone, sorry to bother you.
> >
> > I just made a huge mistake and blew away everything in /etc/exim4/
> >
> > I have tried for several hours now to get the packages reinstalled,
> > but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help me out, I'd greatly
> > appreciate it. I removed all of the following:
> >
> > exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
> >
> > Now, I can't get them to go back in. I get this error:
> >
> > tigris:/etc/exim4# apt-get install exim4
> > messages elided
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > tigris:/etc/exim4# ls
> > conf.d update-exim4.conf.conf
> >
> >
> > How can I do anything about the config files if exim4-config won't
> > even install without them already present?
> >
> > This is so frustrating.
> >
> > Please CC me on the reply - I'm not subscribed.
>
> Try --purge ing them, that deletes all config files, so if the app can
> be reinstalled after a purge (If dpkg/apt doesn't depend on it, it would
> be a bug to fail installation after a purge) it should work.
>
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