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Re: qmail setup

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Littlefield)
Tue Oct 22 18:48:47 1996

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:46:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Littlefield <little@ici.net>
Reply-To: little@ici.net
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610222200.RAA00509@moni.msci.memphis.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Wierdl Mate wrote:

> Is there something one should do before/after installing  the qmail
> rpm?
> 
> Here is what happened:
> I was running sendmail.
> 
> 1) I install the qmail rpm. I try to send a mail from pine:
> segmentation fault.

This is a know problem. Read the FAQ which comes with qmail. (I assume it
is in /usr/doc.)

> I try to send a mail with mh: complains about not
> having a working MTA.
> 2) I stop sendmail, remove it from runlevel 5. Reboot. The above problems
> persist.
> 3) I stop qmail, start sendmail. It is not working: I get the message
> 
> 
> Oct 22 12:47:50 moni sendmail[795]: problem creating SMTP socket
> Oct 22 12:47:55 moni sendmail[795]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: can
> not bind: Address already in use

Did you add the smtp entry to inetd.conf? That would explain the "address
already in use" message.

--
Jim Littlefield                  "The brain is a wonderful organ; it
                                  starts working the moment you get up in
                                  the morning and doesn't stop until you
                                  get to work." - Steven Wright


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