Jim Perrin wrote: > This is an odd dep chain. It would seem that exim requires mysql for > some odd reason. mdadm doesn't, but does require that the system have > an smtp-daemon, which is a dep satisfied by exim, postfix, or > sendmail. > > mostly, install sendmail or postfix, and you can then remove exim and > mysql without fear. Wow, that is odd but it worked. Learn something new every day :). Thanks Jim. johnn