X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:25:19 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks To: "Krzysztof Duleba" , Message-id: <020a01c5fc0b$9a51d060$fb0010ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-2; reply-type=response Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krzysztof Duleba" To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks > Hi > > There's something wrong with exim package and exim-config. It creates > /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe, which links to /bin/exim.exe, which doesn't exist. > There is /bin/exim, which links to /bin/exim-4.54-1.exe, but Cygwin .exe > magic doesn't apply here, so programs depending on /usr/sbin/sendmail > (like pine) doesn't work. Renaming /bin/exim to /bin/exim.exe fixed the > problem. > > Krzysztof Duleba Hum, I just installed the latest exim on a new machine and can't reproduce what you describe. exim-config created lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 13 Dec 8 10:10 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/bin/exim* (no .exe anywhere) , as one would expect from the line ln -s -f /usr/bin/exim /usr/sbin/sendmail && Could there be a problem with your ln? Pierre -- 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/