On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 16:15 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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? It's easiest to manage the symlinks there using the "alternatives" tool itself: # /usr/sbin/alternatives --config mta Paul.
