From: Patrick Quinn-Graham Date: 18:01 on 04 Dec 2006 Subject: smtp servers Dear smtpd* authors, Please please please make your smtp software stop sending Mail delivery failed type messages in response to Mail delivery failed type messages. I'm quite sick of the bounces in reply to bounces littering my postmaster inbox. with hate, Patrick * I don't know if there's any one smtpd that does this more than others, the two most recent seem to have been through qmail and exchange.
From: Patrick Quinn-Graham Date: 07:21 on 13 Jul 2006 Subject: Debian's lighttpd package Normally I don't harbour much hate for Debian, but sometimes package maintainers deserve a thwack over the head. Removing lighttpd ... Stopping web server: lighttpd failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript lighttpd, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing lighttpd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting web server: lighttpd. Errors were encountered while processing: lighttpd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Now, duh, the reason you couldn't stop it was because it wasn't running in the first place! (And the reason it wasn't running was because of a configuration error, that quite frankly I didn't care about because, well, I didn't care.) Now my first answer would be to force it, except that usually doesn't get you around scripts. Bah. ~patrick
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