Message-ID: <m0roL9b-0007zWC@thunder.sbay.org> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:12:06 -0800 From: Ian Kluft <mailto:ikluft@THUNDER.SBAY.ORG> Subject: Re: UUCP neighbours router entry doesn't work To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
>From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@lisse.NA>
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>/usr/lib/smail, NOT /var/lib/smail, this is not well done in the latest Slackware
>distribution, it is not documented and after my upgrade it took me a bit to
>figure out what the heck was going on :-)-O
>[...]
One reason that was not well done and not documented in Slackware was they changed the setup and file locations from a binary release that I provided them but they left my old documentation untouched. My version used /usr/lib/smail before there was a Linux File System Standard. They recompiled it and moved some parts to /var/lib/smail and /etc/smail but they seem to have missed things that expect to still be in /usr/lib/smail. So that's why the Slackware Linux version of smail 3.1.28 is completely broken. I advise everyone to abandon that version if they have it.
So, let me echo what Nigel said... don't use 3.1.28. Upgrade to 3.1.29.1 instead. It's at ftp.uu.net in /networking/mail/smail in source and Linux binary versions.
-- Ian Kluft KD6EUI PP-ASEL mailto:ikluft@thunder.sbay.org (home) ikluft@oes.amdahl.com (work) Santa Clara, CA