New sendmail and missing /usr/lib/sendmail

[Jim Popovitch]

Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2006 12:54, David Eisner wrote:
> 
>> Just a heads up: after installing the
>> sendmail-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy package on a RH9 machine today, I
>> noticed /usr/lib/sendmail was gone. This will break anything
>> that's expecting it to be there.
>>
>> In my case, symlinking  /usr/lib/sendmail --> /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> fixed the problem.
>>
>> -David
>>
>  
> There is instead an entry in /usr/lib;  "sendmail.sendmail"  which 
> is linked to /usr/sbin/sendmail.  Also the man pages no longer work 
> if you type; "man sendmail"  You have to use "man 
> sendmail.sendmail".

Do you have postfix installed on the same host?  sendmail.sendmail is an 
indication that postfix.sendmail possibly exists and that an alias or 
softlink is used to define the current one.

-Jim P.