simple qmail question for RedHat9 server

Belize · 01-23-2004, 02:26 PM

Hello

I use the whereis and locate commands to see if qmail is already installed on my system

Code:

[kaloian@Cuba kaloian]$ whereis qmail
qmail:
[kaloian@Cuba kaloian]$ locate qmail
/var/mailman/tests/bounces/qmail_01.txt
/etc/log.d/conf/services/qmail.conf
/etc/log.d/scripts/services/qmail
[kaloian@Cuba kaloian]$

Does this mean it is installed or not? In the future, how can I check if I have a program installed? Thanks in advance.
Peace
Kaloian

AMMullan · 01-23-2004, 03:10 PM

Hmmm I think your doing things fine, i'd do a locate -u as root and then see if you get different results but from what I can see it's not installed...

Have you read the INSTALL file, i had no problems at all installing QMail as that file was really helpful

Also, when you install QMail there are sometimes a couple of patches you need to install.. They are the errno patch and the ucspi patch...

Try reinstalling it following the INSTALL

Belize · 01-24-2004, 05:48 AM

Code:

[root@Cuba kaloian]# locate -u qmail
[root@Cuba kaloian]#

:P
hehe so I guess its not installed yet? I just want to understand if it is or not, so I know If I should download&configure it. Peace

AMMullan · 01-24-2004, 06:09 AM

Ummmm no.....

Code:

[root@darkside root]# locate -u
[root@darkside root]#locate qmail

Other wise it's just updating the database

Belize · 01-24-2004, 10:20 AM

hehe I did it again and it shows the same results

It seems I dont have it but I wonder what are those files?
Peace

AMMullan · 01-24-2004, 03:26 PM

The /var/mailman/tests/bounces/qmail_01.txt I have no idea about but tthe other 2 seem to be log rotation scripts - always handy when theres nothing to rotate huh

If locate -u doesn't find anything else i'm 99.9% sure you can delete them then install qmail.

Good luck and if ya need a hand setting up QMail just yell out

marlaina1 · 01-25-2004, 12:31 AM

For red hat, to see if anything is installed (and get the package number):
rpm -qa | grep packagename
Substitute the package name such as qmail for package name.

If you use locate, programs will not show up until the database is periodically updated by a cron job so could miss very recently installed programs.

AMMullan · 01-25-2004, 12:57 AM

Quote:

For red hat, to see if anything is installed (and get the package number):
rpm -qa | grep packagename
Substitute the package name such as qmail for package name.

No, that's only correct if the package has been installed by RPM, I think Belize is building it from source so it won't work like that...

But yeah that's a good one to remember - also if you do the following you get the same result:

Code:


[root@darkside]# grep <PACKAGE> /var/log/rpmpkgs