On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just > reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file.
... > Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt > to install it ends with an error that appears to happen due to that > missing file, or the fact that sendmail-bin cannot be --configured. ... > | /etc/mail/aliases: 4 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 66 bytes total > | invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/sendmail not found. > | dpkg: error processing sendmail-bin (--configure): sudo "touch /etc/init.d/sendmail" sudo "aptitude --purge remove sendmail*" However my preferred method: "sudo aptitude install postfix" Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere mortals. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110928103946.ga4...@panix.com
