Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> David Guntner wrote on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:11:23PM -0700 :
> >
> > /usr/bin/mailq and /usr/bin/newaliases don't exist anymore. When I do a ls
> > command, I see that they are now links pointing to
> > /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq and /etc/alternatvies/mta-newaliases.
> > Unfortunately, when looking in /etc/alternatives, neither of those files
> > exist. Ugh.
>
> Read the man page for 'update-alternatives'. The important commandline
> options are --auto, --display, and --config. You can also do it
> manually with --install.
I appreciate the information, Todd, although by now I've painfully figured
out and put in all the links by hand.... :-/
No offence, but *who* is going to think that they need to run "update-
alternatives" after installing a Mandrake-supplied rpm? I did my install
from the CD image created HD directories, and had no reason to think I was
going to need to run anything manually to get those links in place (for
that matter, it's now a system which creates a link pointing to a link
pointing to a link??? That's not very efficient....). I'll bet virtually
no one else would, either.
>From the rest of your message, it looks like there's supposed to be a
script automatically executed when the rpm is installed, but that *didn't*
happen, just so you know. Please let the programmers know about it, if you
would.
--Dave
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