java on RH AS 3.0?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Stuart Sears wrote:

> On Saturday 11 September 2004 13:59, Daniel Rubin wrote:
> > OK, I find the link below helpful for explaining the alternatives
> > mechanism, but I don't know how to configure alternatives to recognize the
> > sun java rpm that I installed that put the binary in /usr/java/j2sdk... I
> > think I'm suppoed to use the /usr/sbin/alternatives command rather than
> > manually changing symlinks in /etc/alternatives.  Any help would be
> > appreciated. Thanks,
> > Daniel
> Daniel, please don't top-post to this list. Having to jump to the bottom to 
> find out which link you are referring to is awkward, and when posts get 
> longer really interrupts the flow of the 'conversation'
> 
> this is what sendmail does on install:
> 1) set up the master links name with a priority - (highest is preferred)
>     - so you would do this for java, instead of mta
> 2) set up the slave links as well, so any other apps that come with a 
> particular  java version have the correct links pointing to them when the 
> master link is altered - man pages and the like.
> 3) say which inititalisation script controls the service (ie what should it 
> start / stop once the links have been changed.)
> 
> output of rpm -q --scripts sendmail (edited for line breaks/relevance):
> 
> /usr/sbin/alternatives \
> --install /usr/sbin/sendmail \ mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail 90 \
> --slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail \
> --slave /usr/bin/newaliases mta-newaliases \
>  /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail \
> --slave /usr/bin/rmail mta-rmail \
>            /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail \
> --slave /usr/lib/sendmail mta-sendmail \
>           /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail \
> --slave /etc/pam.d/smtp mta-pam \
>          /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail \
> --slave /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz mta-sendmailman \
>            /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz \
> --slave /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz mta-mailqman \
>          /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz \
> --slave /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz mta-newaliasesman \
>         /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz \
> --slave /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.5.gz mta-aliasesman \
>        /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz \
> --initscript sendmail
> 
> any help?
> 
Um...Stuart....look at the subject.  You responded to the wrong thread.  
This one is dealing with getting Java to work with the new "alternatives" 
system, not sendmail.

Ben