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Christopher Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Christopher Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:46:06 -0700
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Hi Anne,

For me, it's sendmail that provides that - I found this out by using yum provides ala:

	yum provides /etc/smrsh

chris

On 2012-08-23, at 3:10 AM, Anne Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> On 23/08/12 10:07, Andrey Y. Shevel wrote:
>> 
>> Did you check the content of the directory /etc/smrsh ?
>> 
> I don't have that directory - and I don't ever recall seeing one.
> What package creates it?
> 
> Anne
>> Andrey
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:33:09 +0100 From: Anne Wilson
>>> <[log in to unmask]> To: Gerald Waugh
>>> <[log in to unmask]>, SL Users
>>> <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Procmail problem
>>> 
>> On 21/08/12 20:02, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 08/21/2012 01:50 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> For reasons not relevant to this list, I've been using
>>>>>> GMail to read my mail for a while, so I hadn't noticed that
>>>>>> my local mail server now has big problems.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I see mail arriving there in maillog, and my .forward file 
>>>>>> passes it to procmail - but procmail appears to be not
>>>>>> doing its stuff - the messages aren't being delivered at
>>>>>> all.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> What could be wrong?
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anne
>>>>> What is in  your .procmailrc $HOME/.procmailrc
>>>>> 
>> Thanks for answering.  .procmailrc is a restored file that worked 
>> perfectly before - I'll give you the details if you still want to
>> see it after reading this.
>> 
>> Digging around in logs I found that there have been some problems
>> with perl updates - and I assume that procmail is a perl app.  It
>> seems likely that I messed things up when setting repo priorities,
>> so I set out to clean things up.
>> 
>> First I removed the packages that wouldn't update, keeping a list
>> so that I can restore them as soon as I have the problem sorted,
>> and tweaked the priorities of rpmforge, since that seems to be the
>> one that was missing out.  At first I thought that had done it, as
>> I got a clean list of updates about to perform.  Unfortunately, I
>> then got a transaction error -
>> 
>> file /sbin/extlinux from install of syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 
>> conflicts with file from package
>> syslinux-extlinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
>> 
>> If I try to update the remaining packages as they stand at present
>> I get
>> 
>> Error: glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686 (sl) Requires: glibc-common =
>> 2.12-1.25.el6 Installed: glibc-common-2.12.1.47.el6_2.5.x86_64
>> (@sl-security) glibc-common = 2.12.1.47.el6_2.5 Available:
>> glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64 (sl) glibc-common =
>> 2.12-1.25.el6
>> 
>> I thought of removing glibc, again, to instantly re-install, to
>> ensure I got the right version, but that promises to remove
>> hundreds of packages, so I abandoned that idea.
>> 
>> By now I am completely out of my depth.  Is it possible to repair
>> this system, or would be simpler to just abandon it, and try a
>> clean install, setting up everything afresh?  I hate to be beaten,
>> but a broken system is a liability.
>> 
>> Anne
>>> 
>> 
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