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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: Son of SLS questions (tm)
- References: <1hlbkvINN97h@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <1992Dec28.040900.6300@netcom.com>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:34:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.133438.185@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- 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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