Hi there,
Keep it simple, and only use RPM packages, not tarballs, for Red Hack
installations. Then, do:
rpm -qa | grep sendmail
to find out how many sendmail-related packages you have installed (it was
a long time since I exorcised it, so I can't recall if there are more than
one).
Get rid of each with 'rpm -e'. Then, do 'rpm -ivh exim*.rpm' to install
the Exim packages which, if they're properly rolled-up, will contain the
start-up etc. scripts. Don't do any manual copying, deletion or
symlinking.
To make sure that Exim runs at start-up, use either the 'ntsysv' (ncurses
interface) or chkconfig (CLI) tools, both of which are used to manage the
rc{number}.d directory scripts.
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Regards,
Juha
Removing sig! For great justice!
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I'mnot lazy. I am only not quite familiar with many aspects of Linux. We have a Redhat
> box here which I'd like to run Exim on. I have compiled Exim and even configured it.
> My only problem is how to make the system run Exim every startup and _not_ sendmail.
> I'd like to do away with sendmail.
> Of late I've come to know about the run levels but I am wondering if its sufficient
> to replace the sendmail startup script with the Exim one - exim.sh as seen on BSD
> systems.
>
> TIA
>
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