Bug 161422 - /usr/lib/sendmail symlink missing
Summary: /usr/lib/sendmail symlink missing
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: postfix
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact:
URL: http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bug...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-23 08:43 UTC by Boris Folgmann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-03-19 14:14:37 UTC
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Description Boris Folgmann 2005-06-23 08:43:56 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050417 MultiZilla/1.7.0.2d

Description of problem:
If using postfix on FC3 or on RH9 the '/usr/lib/sendmail' symlink pointing to postfix's sendmail is missing. This problems leads to failures in the OpenGroupware.org software.

Please check:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
postfix-2.1.5-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ ls /usr/lib/sendmail
ls: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory


Additional info:

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2005-06-23 09:11:40 UTC
Please use "alternatives --config mta" to se the mta - alternatives is creating
a link for /usr/lib/sendmail.

How did you install the postfix package?

Comment 2 Boris Folgmann 2005-06-23 09:41:42 UTC
I usally use redhat-switch-mail to switch to postfix.

I checked this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
# alternatives --config mta

There are 1 programs which provide 'mta'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1           /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:
--------------------------------------------------------------------

It does create /usr/lib/sendmail on FC3, but not on RH9. Note the wrong plural
in the program output.
 
The problem regarding my FC3 system is, that it's not a fresh install but an
upgraded system. I always put a lot of effort in fixing upgrade problems, but
this isn't an obvious one. Could you add an automatic "alternatives" run to the
upgrade procedure of the next released install image? I don't see an other
solution how other people using postfix will get a proper installation of all
necessary symlinks.


Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2005-06-23 10:20:02 UTC
There is one - therefore I do not know what happened.

You said, that the FC3 is an updated system. Which system and which postfix
verion was installed before?


Comment 4 Boris Folgmann 2005-06-23 10:49:57 UTC
RH9, later FC1, then FC3. All available updates applied.
But I still have two RH9 system were I've tested that.



Comment 5 Thomas Woerner 2005-09-30 16:08:12 UTC
Do all these systems have the same problem after updating to FC3?

Comment 6 Boris Folgmann 2006-02-06 09:31:32 UTC
Thomas: at least all of my systems!


Comment 7 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 22:55:31 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 8 Boris Folgmann 2007-03-19 14:09:21 UTC
All systems are now at RHEL4. Everything seems to be ok. Please close the bug.


Comment 9 Thomas Woerner 2007-03-19 14:14:37 UTC
Closing as notabug.


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