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Date: | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:37:30 -0700 |
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Subject: | Re: ln -s exe magic (coreutils 6.7-2) |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Pierre A. Humblet on 1/23/2007 4:07 PM: > When a user runs exim-config, the following line is executed: > ln -s -f /usr/bin/exim /usr/sbin/sendmail > > Do you want to link /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/ssmtp (y/N)? y > and it runs > ln -s -f /usr/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail Thanks for the excellent diagnosis. > > My suggestion is that by default ln -s should not do any magic. If some magic is > desired, users can define an alias or shell function that adds --enable-exe-magic I'll have to revisit the exe magic in 'ln -s' to make sure it covers this case. It may be a few days before I can get another coreutils release out, but it is now on my list. Meanwhile, we probably also ought to patch ssmtp-config to be aware of this issue, and have it remove any symlinks with alternate spellings. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFt2Ea84KuGfSFAYARAiGUAKCLOkr+SiiPGl/bGdenCA0woAxY4gCgg3g4 9vgqkSFUK3nvhcOWQOVc6s8= =jbFN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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