Kevin Waterson writes:
> I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely.
> of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later.
> I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packages.
Ask redhat to change the dependency from "sendmail" to "mailtransferagent".
> If I use the
> qmail-run-4-4.i386.rpm
> functions-3-3.i386.rpm
>
> What should I use in the way of var-qmail. My understanding is
> that it needs to be compiled on each machine, but as this is a
> fresh install, but maybe used for upgrades, I am concerned about
> UID's. Should I simply create a .rpm from the source supplied or
> can someone recommend a better method.
If I was making a distribution, *I* would reserve some UIDs <100. The
chances that you'll run into a conflict in an upgrade a very small.
I'd include a program to check for a conflict, and reassign the
existing UID.
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