From: Kevin Andrew Lipscomb <kevinandrewlipscomb@vt.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:04:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7044d2f5-ebd0-4de7-bf07-5a38e2985087@vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1FpuOm_=nw0QyCjmszGnqXouzsCucM9uMhix6iB-NdbQFVog@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021-11-19 18:54, Doug Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 11:00, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>> --
>> -- Kevin
>
> Please reply quoting the complete failing command line and output from
> "uname -a".
From a shell launched (from Windows) as Administrator (which is a user that has fully elevated rights)...
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS ~
$ /usr/sbin/alternatives --verbose --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe 0 \
--slave /usr/lib/sendmail mta-sendmail /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe \
--slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe \
--slave /usr/bin/newaliases mta-newaliases /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
reading /var/lib/alternatives/mta
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 WIN-O968FBUMJDS 3.3.2(0.341/5/3) 2021-11-08 16:55 x86_64 Cygwin
> Also please post the bug number or a link to the bug on bugzilla.redhat.com.
I haven't managed to accomplish that yet. Their system requires me to select a "classification" or "product" that the bug applies to, and it's not clear to me what I should select.
On 2021-11-19 19:07, Andrey Repin wrote:
:
> alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is
> possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows.
In my case, /var/lib/alternatives/mta does exist, and its contents can be seen here:
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS /var/lib/alternatives
$ cat /var/lib/alternatives/mta
manual
/usr/sbin/sendmail
mta-mailq
/usr/bin/mailq
mta-newaliases
/usr/bin/newaliases
mta-sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
0
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe
Administrator@WIN-O968FBUMJDS /var/lib/alternatives
$
On 2021-11-19 20:10, Doug Henderson wrote:
:
> and make sure the ownership and permissions are identical to the other
> files, e.g. in my case:
>
> $ ls -l /var/lib/alternatives
> total 8.0K
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 41 Jul 16 11:25 2to3
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 52 Jul 16 11:25 gnuplot
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 218 Jun 16 17:48 lua
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 77 Jun 5 08:46 pip3
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 85 Jun 5 08:46 pydoc3
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 110 Jun 16 07:34 python
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 89 Jun 5 08:46 python3
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 59 Jul 16 11:25 python3-config
>
Here's what I have:
$ ls -Fals /var/lib/alternatives
total 1
0 drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrator None 0 Nov 20 11:46 ./
0 drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrator None 0 Feb 5 2018 ../
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 0 Apr 4 2013 .keep-alternatives
1 -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 200 Nov 20 11:46 mta
Thank you both for your help with this.
-- Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-20 17:04 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 [this message]
2021-11-20 0:07 ` Andrey Repin
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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