From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: Son of SLS questions (tm) Date: 28 Dec 1992 13:34:38 GMT
tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield) writes:
>Anyone know of a good, fully explicit, but yet simple document for
>setting up linux once it's installed. (like I really believe that
>this will get an answer thats more than a Haha <grin>)
there is a very ambitious SLS documentation project underway, which means
that it'll take some time...there is also a DOC channel of the linux mailing
lists.
>I did get one error, while installing the SLS distribution. (ah, found
>the scrap of paper) It was while installing SLS-B5. It was during the
>smail installation, and the error was `could not create symlink'. Is this
>usuall? It doesn't bother me at present, since I have elm confiqured with
>joe as an editor, and I don't plan to even hook the system up to the uucp
>net for a while.
well, since I gave Peter the smail stuff, let me guess....
umm.....I seem to remember that the current SLS kind'a has both Ed Carp's old
mailer and my 'new' smail stuff in it. Both may conflict somewhat in the files
in /bin...specifically /bin/*mail* (rmail, mail, smail, etc.).
If you look in /install/installed, you'll see files that contain lists of
stuff that was installed as part of installing a SLS 'kit' (cool, huh?)
Grep them for the string 'rmail' and you'll probably see that that 'base' kit
installes a /bin/rmail, and the 'smail' kit also tries to do so.
If so, and you want to run smail, the existing /bin/rmail binary should
probably (PROBABLY!!!) be removed and replaced with a link that points to
/usr/bin/smail...
If that's what happened, I'd call it a SLS growing pain...
[...incidentally, I'm real interested to hear how the folks who are running
the smail/elm/c-news/tin/trn/nn in the 0.98-5 and later SLS's are
doing. I got lots of great feedback after providing the newspak
sources and stuff to sunsite.unc.edu, but I haven't heard anythign
either way until now about mail in SLS...please, feel free to mail
me any feedback either way...]
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