On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 14:46, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > i don't use gui tools for most system configuration things, so if > that's how the mta switch was made, more things may have been touched > than i'm aware of. > > that said, assuming that your postfix config files are still intact > (the switch shouldn't have done anything to them) you should be able > to set things back to postfix as your MTA by resetting the "mta" > symbolic link in /etc/alternatives . > > from what you've indicated, i assume that that symbolic link is > currently set to: > > mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail > > to reset things to use postfix as your MTA, delete that symbolic link > (after shutting down sendmail) and set up a new symbolic link > pointing "mta" to "/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix". [double check that > sendmail.postfix is at that location.] > > look at the other "mta-*" symbolic links in /etc/alternatives as > there are links to man pages, etc., e.g.: > > mta-sendmailman -> /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz > > that might also need resetting. This looks disastrous. I think I have really screwed this up. I never did understand links correctly. I tried to correct a couple in /etc/alternatives from konqueror, but got a desktop configuration file instead of an executable. I also tried from the CLI, but that didn't work either. Listing /usr/bin/mail* produces a couple of red blinking listings, which I take to be broken links. /usr/bin/mailq -> /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq Sorry to be such a wimp, but please tell me explicitly how to do this? Thanks Anne
