[WLUG] Free SLES Distro?

[Clif Flynt]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:17:24AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> ...
> >   But, it's not fully integrated (yet) in SL/7. Sendmail is still
> > controlled with init.d.  This might be that RH is moving away from 
> > sendmail.  I'll concede that sendmail is a bear to configure, but last
> > time I looked at postfix it couldn't do the envelope rewriting I need.
> 
> I'd double-check that -- the CentOS7 sendmail package doesn't include
> a SysV init file, only systemd service units.
> 
> # rpm -ql sendmail | egrep 'systemd|rc.d'
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/sm-client.service
> 
> The only way you get the SysV init script is if you install the
> extra sendmail-sysvinit package. 
> 

  Oops, my bad.  You're right, when I pulled in sendmail I pulled
in the sysvinit as well.

  I'll look into EPEL.
  
  I'm not totally against anything new, and I'll concede that the old
ways were cryptic and ill-documented.  But too much of the new stuff is
no less cryptic and even worse docco'd.

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