RH 9.0: AUTH LOGIN issue with latest sendmail patch

Christian Becker chris at fatorange.com
Sat Mar 25 20:42:11 UTC 2006


>> There seem to be three missing links on RH9 and FC1:
>> 
>> /usr/lib/sendmail -> 
>>     /etc/alternatives/mta-sendmail
>> 
> /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz -> 
>>     /etc/alternatives/mta-sendmailman
>> 
>> /etc/pam.d/smtp ->
>>     /etc/alternatives/mta-pam
>> 
>
>If you do a "alternatives --config mta" and re-select sendmail, do the
>links get created?
>
>Marc. 

Yes, re-selection creates the correct links.
Here is the output of "alternatives --display mta" (after re-selection the
status changes to "manual"):

mta - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail - priority 90
 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
 slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
 slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail
 slave mta-sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail
 slave mta-pam: /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail
 slave mta-sendmailman: /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz
 slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz
 slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
 slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail.

Christian Becker




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