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Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

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Thanks once more for the support!  The problem is now solved.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:20 AM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > # dpkg -P sendmail-base
> > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
> > update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add
> > dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--purge):
> >  installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned
> > error exit status 255
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  sendmail-base
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I would take a look at the pre-removal script sendmail-base.prerm to
> see what it's trying to do. If there are parts that aren't sensible,
> you could comment them out, alter things so that they can work, or
> even just make them "succeed" with "|| true" so you get to the end
> of the script. (Check sendmail-base.postinst while you're about it.)
>
> The scripts will contain a record of what modifications they intended
> to make to your system, so ultimately all you need to do is nullify
> those changes, remove the files in sendmail-base.list and convince
> dpkg that the package is purged. Manually if necessary.
>

Thanks for the pointer!   sendmail-base.prerm had the line:

update-inetd --group MAIL --disable smtp,smtps,submission;

and I was getting the error

update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add

So, I changed it to:

update-inetd --disable smtp,smtps,submission;

and was then able to uninstall it.

Thanks again for your help.

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Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 15:10 +0200
    Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 15:20 +0200
      Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 15:50 +0200
        Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 15:50 +0200
          Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 16:30 +0200
            Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 16:50 +0200
              Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-08-29 13:00 +0200
                Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-08-29 13:50 +0200
          Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 17:00 +0200

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