Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-29 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 29.08.18 11:57, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > However both sendmail and update-inetd are orphaned at the moment (no > regular maintainers, although Andreas Beckmann has done a lot of work > via the QA team) After favouring sendmail for a decade and a half, I thought I was slow to switch to postfix

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:42:01AM -0400, Luis Finotti wrote: Thanks for the pointer! sendmail-base.prerm had the line: update-inetd --group MAIL --disable smtp,smtps,submission; and I was getting the error update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add This would appear to be a

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/28/18, Luis Finotti wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright > wrote: > >> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: >> > # apt remove sendemail >> >> Oops. >> >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree >> > Reading state information... Do

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread Luis Finotti
Thanks once more for the support! The problem is now solved. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:20 AM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > > # dpkg -P sendmail-base > > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removin

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > # dpkg -P sendmail-base > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ... > update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add > dpkg: error processing package sen

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread Luis Finotti
Thanks for the reply again. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > > # apt remove sendemail > > Oops. > > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > Package

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > # apt remove sendemail Oops. > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package 'sendemail' is not installed, so not removed > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread Luis Finotti
Firstly, thanks for the reply! On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:04 AM David Wright wrote: > On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 12:38:42 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well, > > aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually). > > P

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 12:38:42 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well, > aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually). Perhaps their forums might help. > I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn

Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-27 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi everyone, I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well, aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually). I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn 'apt -f install' did not fix it, nor did 'dpkg --configure -a'. Since it was not essential (and did n