> I am trying and trying and trying so hard to get my email to work on my > Debian 1.3 system, but nothing I ever do seems to work. I am going nuts. > Smail has somehow gotten halfway installed on my system and it wont go > away. If I try and remove smail with this command:
To do it cleanly, I would suggest downloading smail*.deb file from ftp.debian.org and installing it with dpkg -i smail*.deb The just do dpkg --purge smail. > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > ... hmm, can't open /etc/smail/config? Another way is to look into /var/lib/dpkg/info/smail.prerm and see what causing the problem. No-brainer approach would be to edit this file and put "exit 0" right after #!/bin/sh line. I would hightly recommend execute the following: /etc/init.d/smail stop update-inetd --comment-chars \#disabled\# --disable smtp I myself wouldn't do it this way, but try to understand what does the smail.prerm wants to make it happy. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-------------------------------------------+ | _ 7 | Alexander Yukhimets | \ (") | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +-------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null