SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:29:03 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:40:47AM +0800, M.W. Chang wrote:
> > sendmail is not designed to configured as a one-step process. You
> > need to run m4 to process the macros. this explained why it failed
> > to be installed from the Lindows warehouse. I believe it will never
> > be easy to install software like sendmail remotely. You would have
> > to choose from a long list of sendmail packages if you are to do it
> > from a centralized warehouse.
> 
> I installed and uninstalled sendmail about four times
> because of configuration errors and OS debacles yesterday,
> so I feel qualified in this area.

You don't need to uninstall sendmail.  In a Debian system, you also
don't run m4.  What you do run is `sendmailconfig`.  You can either let
it lead you through a bunch of questions or you can edit
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc, run sendmailconfig, tell it to use the
sendmail.mc in /etc/mail, and all will work as configured.  Don't edit
sendmail.cf, edit sendmail.mc.  sendmailconfig runs m4 on sendmail.mc
for you.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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