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Re: Installation Questions

From: mouss (mlist.onlyfree.fr)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 15:08:23 CST


Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a new user to postfix and Linux. I am using CentOS 5 and even with a minimal installation, sendmail is installed with other applications dependant on it.
>
> I downloaded the postfix-2.5-20071130.tar.gz and compiled it then installed it making the user and group before. It stated that it removed sendmail as the default and now postfix is.
>
> How does one verify any dependency on sendmail so I can safely uninstall it?
>

use /usr/sbin/alternatives to tell the system to use postfix sendmail
commands. then you can remove Sendmail.