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Re: /usr/sbin/alternatives and postfix from source

From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 09:01:35 CST


* Michael Irons <michaelelectricmonk.us>:
> I have a Fedora Core 2 system that I am trying to set up postfix, dovecot,
> sasl, ssl, and squirrelmail on. Trying to better myself, I have been trying
> to get everything built everything from the ground up (sources). The problem
> I am having, is that I cannot find away to get
> around /usr/sbin/alternatives. I am using pam for authentication and this

Why get around /usr/sbin/alternatives? Use it to switch everything to use
Postfix instead of the default Sendmail. Or do I misunderstand you? I use it
all the time and don't have problems.

prick

> means the symlinks are all screwed up (pam.d) as well as the symlinks for
> sendmail (sendmail.sendmail) and such. I think I just have to manually
> symlink some things, but I have also heard that this can screw some things
> up. Any ideas.
>
> thanks
> michael

--
SMTP AUTH howto:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/>
SMTP AUTH debug utility:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>