Hello Thomas, kre has given a good answer and I'd do what he suggested, but...
> This issue comes from the fact that I wanted to use the > unattended-upgrades package on Debian which uses mailx to send > reports. Since only nmh is detected as providing a compatible mailx > program, mailx redirects to /usr/bin/mh/mhmail. Are you saying that Debian puts in the symlink from /usr/bin/mhmail to /usr/bin/mh/mhmail when selecting nmh as one of the alternative packages to provide a virtual package which unattended-upgrades depends upon? That sounds flawed for the reason you gave. Does Debian have a central place to manipulate PATH to append /usr/bin/mh for unattended-upgrades? apt-file(1) here suggests there's a /lib/systemd/system/unattended-upgrades.service so perhaps a local file to override its PATH? Which version of Debian is this? ‘lsb_release -a’ shows this. -- Cheers, Ralph.
