Re: RE: [IGNORE] [PHP] Changing mta in /etc/alternatives : how?
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:16:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RE: [IGNORE] [PHP] Changing mta in /etc/alternatives : how? | ||
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/me puts flame thrower away
darn you spoiled all the fun ;)
* Thus wrote Graham Cossey:
>
> Sorry, mailed to the wrong list :(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Cossey [mailto:graham@cossey.plus.com]
> Sent: 28 September 2004 23:27
> To: Php-General
> Subject: [PHP] Changing mta in /etc/alternatives : how?
>
>
>
> Sorry for the probably basic question, but I would like to change the
> default mta on my FC2 box from sendmail to exim. I believe to do this I need
> to change the 'entry' in /etc/alternatives/ to point to
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.exim instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail.
>
> Doing a 'ls -al' on /etc/alternatives shows that the entries here are
> lrwxrwxrwx, what exactly is the 'l' and how do I change it? I have tried
> creating a test symbolic link such as :
>
> ln -isv /usr/sbin/sendmail.exim test
>
> but the colour coding of the resulting 'test' link is different to the
> existing ones.
>
> Can someone shed some light on this for me?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Graham
>
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