RE: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-02 Thread Robinson, Eric
> you could always just not install postfix, since installing > an entire mail server isn't at all necessary to simply send > email. i would recommend null client specific software, such > as msmtp, instead. among other things, it would likely > introduce far fewer packaging considerations. >

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Peter
On 02/04/12 06:17, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 03:38:34PM +, Robinson, Eric wrote: > >> We only want to install postfix as a null client for sending >> alerts from our servers. When I try to install postfix, it wants >> to install mysql-libs-5.1.61-1.el6_2.1 as well. I'm a

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 03:38:34PM +, Robinson, Eric wrote: > We only want to install postfix as a null client for sending > alerts from our servers. When I try to install postfix, it wants > to install mysql-libs-5.1.61-1.el6_2.1 as well. I'm afraid this > will break our mysql servers, which

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread btb
On Apr 01, 2012, at 11.58, Robinson, Eric wrote: >> you could always just not install postfix, since installing >> an entire mail server isn't at all necessary to simply send >> email. i would recommend null client specific software, such >> as msmtp, instead. among other things, it would li

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.04.2012 18:04, schrieb Robinson: >> if you are using MySQL 5.0.77 on RHEL/CentOS6 you are NOT >> using the distribution mysql packages - so you should better >> consider the CentOS mailing list how to deal with unusual >> configuration of your system >> >> > > We have about 420 instance

RE: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Robinson, Eric
> if you are using MySQL 5.0.77 on RHEL/CentOS6 you are NOT > using the distribution mysql packages - so you should better > consider the CentOS mailing list how to deal with unusual > configuration of your system > > We have about 420 instances of MySQL on a bunch of servers, most of them RH

RE: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Robinson, Eric
> you could always just not install postfix, since installing > an entire mail server isn't at all necessary to simply send > email. i would recommend null client specific software, such > as msmtp, instead. among other things, it would likely > introduce far fewer packaging considerations. >

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.04.2012 17:49, schrieb b...@bitrate.net: > you could always just not install postfix, since installing an entire mail > server isn't at all necessary to simply send email who says? you do not need anything other than postfix for SEND mail especially not for system-messages relayed to a c

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread btb
On Apr 01, 2012, at 11.38, Robinson, Eric wrote: > We only want to install postfix as a null client for sending alerts from our > servers. When I try to install postfix, it wants to install > mysql-libs-5.1.61-1.el6_2.1 as well. I'm afraid this will break our mysql > servers, which are all runn

Re: Want to Install Postfix but Afraid of Breaking MySQL

2012-04-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.04.2012 17:38, schrieb Robinson: > We only want to install postfix as a null client for sending alerts from our > servers. When I try to install > postfix, it wants to install mysql-libs-5.1.61-1.el6_2.1 as well. I'm afraid > this will break our mysql servers, > which are all running MySQ