On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:03:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > Hi, > I am running an NSLU2 Slug, Debian Etch. Kernel=2.6.18-4-ixp4xx. I > installed AT and was very surprised to see that APT requires that Courier > Mail MTA is a prereq of AT. I can understand that I will need an MTA if I > want AT to mail me infos about what it has done etc. > I am surprised that it requires a specific MTA. > On the NSLU2 RAM is at a premium and I would prefer not to have all these > useless (for me ) processes hanging around all the time. > > How can I find out if and why courier MTA is really required? > > Would there be any danger in just overriding this prereq somehow to allow > the AT install without Courier? I have never done this but I assume its not > too big a problem to do. > > Cheers Brian
at depends on mail-transport-agent provided by courier-mta. Just pick your favorite and install it along with at like: aptitude install at postfix Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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