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Drake Mobius wrote:
> Just thought I'd share a fun little experience I recently had with
> EXIM.
>
> I had been having some trouble navigating the exim multi-file config,
> attempting to change my local mailserver into a real internet-capable
> server. Exim4 came installed already when I first installed debian, and
> I wasn't sure how to properly reinstall. Apt-get remove and install of
> all associated programs never prompted me to reconfigure. Well let's
> just say that through some rash thinking and so forth the /etc/exim4
> directory 'got' deleted.
>
> Yeah.
>
> So, I go to apt-get remove && install the programs (and dependent
> programs such as subversion-tools), expecting those config files to be
> restored to a pristine state by the .debs.
> No dice. exim4-config failed to configure due to the lack of, tada,
> /etc/exim4
> thus causing exim4, exim4-base, and exim4-daemon-heavy to ALSO fail. So
> the files I need to be autocreated by dpkg fail because of the fact
> that they don't exist. something is fishy about this.
>
> Well it of course FINALLY hit me that I should have just used
> dpkg-reconfigure instead of apt-get remove et al. Attempts to do this
> fail with the same messages, of course.
>
> I was able to rectify this situation by dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
> --force, setting that to the multi-file setup (it continued to fail due
> to a missing file if I told it to use the monolithic single-file
> structure), and then removing and reinstalling exim4-config,
> exim4-base, exim4, etc. (i had to remove because exim4-config was
> considered installed but broken, and wouldn't let any other packages
> install)
>
> Now I've got my mail server running, and all it took was an hour and a
> half of complete idiocy and associated frustation!
In the future, you may want to do a 'dpkg --purge' when trying to completely
remove all traces of packages...
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