Sendmail

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 14:46, 
replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net 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?  
Thanks

Anne