Just solved another one of those irritating little problems, and thought it might help some others.
I was setting up a Mandrake 9.0 system for someone. The command "mailq" seems to have been missing, but there was "mailq.postfix". mailq.postfix simply didn't work: it hanged after a while (though it could be killed by Ctrl-C). Stracing (even with -f) got me nowhere: I got an error message about failed writing to [/var/spool/postfix/]maildrop , the following in the warnings log: Jan 11 17:58:50 yarden postfix/postdrop[1688]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/173803.1688: Permission denied And then I noticed that /usr/bin/mailq did exist, and was a dandling link to /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq . mta-mailq seems to be a slave alternative of mta (update-alternatives --display mta-mailq), so: update-alternatives --auto mta Fixed everything -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
