Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

[Paul Makepeace]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:33:54PM +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Under FreeBSD, you've got sendmail-wrapper instead, which you can
> configure to point to any installed file.

Debian has generalised this in /etc/alternatives,


$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/ | head -6
total 1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          100 Nov  6 18:18 README
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           33 Sep 20 17:35 WindowMaker -> 
/usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker-debian
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Nov 14 17:43 a2p -> /usr/bin/a2p-5.6
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           33 Nov 14 17:43 a2p.1p.gz -> 
/usr/share/man/man1/a2p-5.6.1p.gz
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           28 Sep 20 17:35 asclock -> 
/usr/X11R6/bin/asclock-24bpp
$

Paul