On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:56:40 -0300
"Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
>     
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:12:42 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily
> 
> 
> >snip> 
> > If Postfix is installed, then cron.daily will fail because makewhatis does not 
> > like the name of 3 postfix files.
> >  Rename these files, and it all works OK
> > /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.bz2   to .../aliases.5.bz2
> > /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.bz2   to .../mailq.1.bz2
> > /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.bz2   to .../newaliases.1.bz2
> > 
> > I have checked and 9.1RC1 works OK because symlinks have been put into the 
> > folders.
> > 
> > derek
> >***********************************
> 
> Hi Derek, I'm running 9 with kernel 2.4.19-24, with postfix installed (but not 
> running) and I seem to have the sym links that you make mention of. My cron.daily 
> seems to be working OK.
> 
> In /usr/share/man/man5 I have a symlink called "aliases.5.bz2", and in 
> /usr/share/man/man1 I have symlinks "mailq.1.bz2" and "newaliases.1.bz2" 
> The links point to, respectively:
> /etc/alternatives/mta-aliasesman
> /etc/alternatives/mta-mailqman
> /etc/alternatives/mat-newaliasesman
> 
> Could you have missed an update perhaps?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> --Angus

Greg offered the wisdom that the symlinks do not get created until the command
update-alternatives --auto mta
is executed. I do not know why it did not get run when the RPM was installed, but I 
have two computers with the same issue.

It is interesting though how things inter-relate. My MandrakeOnline was not working 
because of a symlink associated with a mail server :)

derek

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