Hi Gene, El dc 03 de 07 de 2013 a les 06:48 -0400, en/na Gene Heskett va escriure: > No luck this morning, no mail from amanda either. So I went to check, > "which mail" returned a null. Man mail also failed. Removing the bsd- > mailx package with synaptic removed the manpages and executables of > mailutils! > > So I "re-installed" mailutils and the -mh addition. Now I have a man page > that bears little resemblance to the one I was looking at 2 days ago when I > started on this quest to make local mail work like it used to on other > installs since 1998. > > And "which mail" now returns: /usr/bin/mail like it should. > > So add this bit of trivia to your box of clues for new bee's like me. But > there's nothing new about me, 78 yo retire broadcast engineer, and type 2 > diabetic, my warranty expired 25 years ago. > > Removing bsd-mailx /after/ installing mailutils, _WILL_ remove the docs and > executables of mailutils.
If I followed you correctly, it makes little sense. In Debian based systems, /usr/bin/mailx is a symlink pointing to the alternatives system. Currently there are 3 different implementations of mailx packaged in Debian: mailutils', heirloom's and BSD's. You can install all three in parallel, but of course only one will take over the symlink. To configure which takes precedence, update-alternatives --config mailx -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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