Re: New sendmail and missing /usr/lib/sendmail

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On Friday 24 March 2006 16:48, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

>
> /usr/sbin/alternatives was supposed to take care of that.  If you
> will do 'rpm -q --scripts sendmail' then you should see, among
> other things,  something of that sort:
>
>   /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta \
> 		/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail 90 \
>         --slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
> \ --slave ( ... and so on, and so on ....)

That all seems to be there and I didn't notice anything wrong.

>
> Apparently something is not right here.  Check with what you
> ended up in /etc/alternatives/ (should be a bunch of symlinks
> there and things like /usr/lib/sendmail, or correspoding
> manpages, are links to these).  As a workaround you can add for
> now missing symlinks by yourself; or you can try to rerun that
> part of an installation script and see if this will create all
> links you need.
>

Those also appear to be there, but .... there appears to be a 
missing link in the  /usr/share/man/man8 directory:

sendmail.8.gz -> /etc/alternatives/mta-sendmailman

if my FC3 structure is anything to go by.  Manually adding it allows 
the "man sendmail" syntax to work.


Regards, Mike Klinke

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