On 12/15/2010 12:20 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:46:26 am Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> On the system in question, I type the command in, even by itself and >> NOTHING seems to happen. No output at all. >> > I also have Fedora 12 and as you point out, it prints information on help. > Try the following and compare: > > which alternatives > ...gives you the actual PATH of the command you're trying) > # which alternatives /usr/sbin/alternatives > rpm -qf /usr/sbin/alternatives > ...shows that it comes with the chkconfig package. > # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/alternatives chkconfig-1.3.44-1.i686 > ls -l /usr/sbin/alternatives gives me: > > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 23700 2009-09-29 16:52 /usr/sbin/alternatives > > My chkconfig package is: chkconfig-1.3.44-1.i686 > ls -l /usr/sbin/alternatives -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 2010-12-15 10:22 /usr/sbin/alternatives > Check /var/log/messages... > Nothing added there after running just alternatives, but interestingly there is a new entry in /var/log/cron Dec 15 12:45:01 klovia CROND[4550]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) I installed mailman AFTER the one time I ran alternatives successfully. And mialman is NOT on the system where alternatives works... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines