Re: qmail distro and UID

[Sam]

Frank D. Cringle writes:

> It looks like they have changed it to smtpdaemon in Redhat 6.0,
> although I am not an rpm expert, so maybe I misunderstand.
> 
>  $ rpm -q --whatrequires sendmail
>  no package requires sendmail
>  $ rpm -q --whatrequires smtpdaemon
>  fetchmail-5.0.0-1
>  mutt-0.95.4us-4
>  nmh-0.27-8

That has been the case at least since 4.0.  The problem is that Red Hat's
installer forces a sendmail install no matter what, even if another package
provides smtpdaemon.

-- 
Sam