On 2021-11-19 18:54, Doug Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 11:00, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
ssmtp-config fails silently on step 6 at the first call to
/usr/sbin/alternatives.
I isolated the alternatives command, added the --verbose switch to it, and ran
the result from a bash shell that was launched as Administrator. The command
fails immediately after emitting:
reading /var/lib/alternatives/mta
I am also reporting this as a bug in alternatives at bugzilla.redhat.com.
--
-- Kevin
Please reply quoting the complete failing command line and output from
"uname -a".
From a shell launched (from Windows) as Administrator (which is a user that has
fully elevated rights)...
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS ~
$ /usr/sbin/alternatives --verbose --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe 0 \
--slave /usr/lib/sendmail mta-sendmail /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe \
--slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe \
--slave /usr/bin/newaliases mta-newaliases /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
reading /var/lib/alternatives/mta
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 WIN-O968FBUMJDS 3.3.2(0.341/5/3) 2021-11-08 16:55 x86_64 Cygwin
Also please post the bug number or a link to the bug on bugzilla.redhat.com.
I haven't managed to accomplish that yet. Their system requires me to select a
"classification" or "product" that the bug applies to, and it's not clear to me
what I should select.
On 2021-11-19 19:07, Andrey Repin wrote:
:
alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is
possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows.
In my case, /var/lib/alternatives/mta does exist, and its contents can be seen
here:
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS /var/lib/alternatives
$ cat /var/lib/alternatives/mta
manual
/usr/sbin/sendmail
mta-mailq
/usr/bin/mailq
mta-newaliases
/usr/bin/newaliases
mta-sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
0
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS /var/lib/alternatives
$
On 2021-11-19 20:10, Doug Henderson wrote:
:
and make sure the ownership and permissions are identical to the other
files, e.g. in my case:
$ ls -l /var/lib/alternatives
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 41 Jul 16 11:25 2to3
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 52 Jul 16 11:25 gnuplot
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 218 Jun 16 17:48 lua
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 77 Jun 5 08:46 pip3
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 85 Jun 5 08:46 pydoc3
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 110 Jun 16 07:34 python
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 89 Jun 5 08:46 python3
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 59 Jul 16 11:25 python3-config
Here's what I have:
$ ls -Fals /var/lib/alternatives
total 1
0 drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrator None 0 Nov 20 11:46 ./
0 drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrator None 0 Feb 5 2018 ../
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 0 Apr 4 2013 .keep-alternatives
1 -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 200 Nov 20 11:46 mta
Thank you both for your help with this.
-- Kevin
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