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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