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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Kevin Andrew Lipscomb <kevinandrewlipscomb@vt.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 03:07:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <238898726.20211120030728@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f224c0f-9629-ab70-1bef-c2c1e742b5fc@vt.edu>

Greetings, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb!

> ssmtp-config fails silently on step 6 at the first call to /usr/sbin/alternatives.

> I isolated the alternatives command, added the --verbose switch to it, and
> ran the result from a bash shell that was launched as Administrator.  The
> command fails immediately after emitting:

>    reading /var/lib/alternatives/mta

> I am also reporting this as a bug in alternatives at bugzilla.redhat.com.

alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is
possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, November 20, 2021 3:05:44

Sorry for my terrible english...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-20  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-19 17:59 Kevin Andrew Lipscomb
2021-11-19 23:54 ` Doug Henderson
2021-11-20 17:04   ` Kevin Andrew Lipscomb
2021-11-20  0:07 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2021-11-20  1:10   ` Doug Henderson
2021-11-20 22:26   ` Ken Brown
2021-11-22 10:28     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-22 18:04       ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-22 18:29         ` Corinna Vinschen

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