On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: > > > prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm > > > gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. > > Why not just de-install sendmail and then re-install it again. If you > > de-install it you may see messages about x,not why not, etc. Ignore > > those and just install. - Try this first before you throw the baby > > with the bath. > > Sounds smart, if the other option of re-running the post-install script > doesn't work, BUT how does one de-install sendmail? Is this a dselect > activity? Do I just de-install sendmail* or are there lots of files I gotta > take out? Also, what do I do when dselect bitches about dependancies (assuming > it will)? > Thanks, No just "dpkg --remove sendmail" and it probably will refuse claiming that app 1 depends on sendmail and app1 is installed, etc.
Then next do "dpkg --install sendmailX.Y.deb", where X and Y refers to the numbers of the sendmail deb file. Sendmail should install and then you can play with options. /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 1233 /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
