Message-ID: <m0rpyXO-0005FPC@lisse.na> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 11:27:14 -0200 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: UUCP neighbours router entry doesn't work To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
In message <mailto:m0roL9b-0007zWC@thunder.sbay.org>Ian Kluft writes >>From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@lisse.NA>
>>[...]
>>/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.
I do agree. However this is not as easy as it looks for someone in a country with only an expensive dialup link. The other problem is that I like the old log files. Hmm, read ``like'' as in ``have a Perl analyser'' :-)-O
>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.
We'll see what we can do :-)-O.
el
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