Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:39:07 -0800 From: "brother ed" <brothered@www.urostruly.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: sendmail pkg Message-ID: <002201be548d$c477a590$9e889dd1@zoroasterianism.misogyny.com>
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I hate to bother you with a poorly constructed question as this but I'm getting nowhere. I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 onto a 58-meg hd, 486/33/8m, 2m swap. This is my only spare machine at this time. I of course picked minimal install. It runs *fine*. I used the boot floppy, ethernet and ftp -- I must say that is a beautiful device. I found it was a little cryptic but I was able to get it going once I saw I had to hard-set the ed0 i/o (ne2000) Except df => 99% usage, no great surprise. I note that sendmail is enclosed in this absolute minimum install. I do not need it for basic familiarity and DNS experiments. I have some linux background. In redhat linux, their minimal install defaults to having sendmail as well. But one can run rpm -e sendmail (Redhat Package Manager) and it is gone, saving disk space. Ditto for some other packages. I was able to get RH 4.1 down to a working 66% df on this machine I cannot figure out how to cleanly uninstall sendmail from BSD. I take the pkg_*** suite to be equiv of RH rpm; but pkg_info gives nothing. I assume the sendmail pkg is not registered as an installed package in FreeBSD. Is sendmail just too tightly constructed into FreeBSD for me to get it out? I do note that the rpm -e command in RedHat can get you into trouble. you can remove your libs and other things, and I could see controlling that feature. But is there a way to cleanly remove sendmail et al from this minimal 2.2.8 install? Or should I just remove the related binaries and files? Will that be okay as long as sendmail is turned off in rc.local? quick general feedabck: Over all, I would state I am impressed by FreeBSD so far. I had not thought it would rival linux, but I think it does. especially for someone wanting a stable, manageable, somewhat straight-up installation perhaps for biz purposes. Seems better geared for that than the wildness and rawness of linux. E.g. the rc.local implementation is notably un-cryptic. Seems nothing is that simple in linux. And obviously per my installation, FreeBSD does not mind minimal hardware at all. Thanks much in advance for any reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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