From: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Kevin Andrew Lipscomb <kevinandrewlipscomb@vt.edu>,
Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:10:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1FpuNKAMJt68OQ-MnWAEzTWzGtStTMXwN_DXd9K3E2umkC5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <238898726.20211120030728@yandex.ru>
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 17:21, Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
If that is the case, a possible workaround is to issue the following
command from an elevated shell
touch /var/lib/alternatives/mta
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
--
Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-20 1:10 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
2021-11-20 1:10 ` Doug Henderson [this message]
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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