Troy J Dawson wrote: > Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: >> >>> February 12, 2009 >>> The secpmd beta release for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been released >>> for both i386 and x86_64. >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> CHANGES by Scientific Linux >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> **ALPINE >>> ** Updated to the latest version >>> ** Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to >>> ** our 1.0 version >>> ** An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer >>> ** overwriting an existing pine.conf Therefore an existing pine.conf >>> ** in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For >>> ** an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample >>> ** conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it. >>> ** Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile >>> i386: >>> ** alpine-2.00-1.el5.i386.rpm >>> x86_64: >>> ** alpine-2.00-1.el5.x86_64.rpm >> Just a heads-up for now (more when I've got to the bottom of it) >> but for installations where alpine uses sendmail to send the mail >> alpine-2.00-1 is not a dropin replacement for v1.10. >> >> I'm used to using >> smtp-server= >> to tell alpine to use sendmail, but this doesn't work with the >> alpine-2.00-1.el5.x86_64 package. I think I'll have to use >> sendmail-path=/usr/sbin/sendmail ... >> >> This part of the alpine documentation hasn't changed since v1.10. >> Is it a change in the package ? >> > > Besides in the alpine.conf, where was this documented? > > Thanks > Troy Hmmm ... you are correct and this is troubling to me. On a plain SL 5.2 machine, freshly installed, using our alpine 1.10. I fired up pine, as a regular user, and was able to send an email with no extra configuration. On a plain SL 5.3 machine (for i386 and x86_64), freshly installed, using out alpine 2.00. I fired up pine as a regular user. In both cases I got "Error sending: No default posting command" I believe the comment that the one could have been built in an enviroment without sendmail can be correct. For alpine 2.00 we built it in a moch (chroot) enviroment. And although I don't ususally, I might have built alpine 1.10 on a regular system that had sendmail installed. I'm going to try out that theory, and hopefully have a resolution in a few hours. Thanks for letting us know about this. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________