Re: postfix question - sendmail use

From: Hennie Rautenbach (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 04:06:15 EST


Seem to have done the trick.

/usr/sbin/sendmail is now linked to /etc/alternatives/mta which in turn
is linked to /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.

It works. I am happy. Thanks very much.

H.

Hennie Rautenbach wrote:

> Ah ! Thanks. I'll re-install.
>
> Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>>* Hennie Rautenbach <>:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>postfix supplies a /usr/sbin/sendmail binary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>That is the one I use.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>No.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Show "ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>ls -alF /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>>
>>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 22 22:16
>>>/usr/sbin/sendmail -> postfix*
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That's wrong.
>>Your installation is hosed.
>>
>>That's the way it's supposed to look:
>>
>># ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 2 2001 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/lib/sendmail
>># ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail
>>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 440237 Nov 14 12:49 /usr/lib/sendmail
>>
>>
>>
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