On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 17:14 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > Following the instructions in a book, I did > ln -s mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix > which has exactly the opposite result to what is required, overwriting > the executable with a link. > > Is there any way of recovering the executable or must I reinstall > postfix? ---- personally, I would backup copies of any config files that you altered - i.e. cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.saved and then remove the symlink you created... rm /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix and then reinstall postfix... rpm -ivh --force \ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/postfix-2.2.2-2.i386.rpm and that should fix things but I would recomend that you also install the system-switch-mail package and run that to 'bless' postfix that I described earlier Craig
