[CentOS] Mdadm Dependancies - Centos 4.3

Tue Aug 15 17:22:21 UTC 2006
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

> I have a mail server (Qmail) and just tried to install mdadm to monitor
> the raid arrays via Yum and it tried to install exim. Is this correct? I
> guess that it is looking for an MTA so why is it not finding Qmail (linked
> to /usr/lib/sendmail). One possibility is that I used yum to actually
> uninstall sendmail, but installed qmail from source as it needed patching.
>
> Any way out of this apart from installing mdadm from an rpm with no deps/

It won't find qmail because qmail isn't in the rpm database, so yes...
mdadm is doing the right thing by trying to install a mailer. It's
linked as a dependency to notify admins if an array has issues.

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