When a user runs exim-config, the following line is executed: ln -s -f /usr/bin/exim /usr/sbin/sendmail
If later the user switches to ssmtp, ssmtp-config asks (6) link /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/ssmtp? Some programs (e.g. cron) expect /usr/sbin/sendmail to handle mail. Currently it is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/exim. Changing it to a link to ssmtp may affect other programs such as cron. 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 At this point we have: /usr/sbin: ls -l sendmail* lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 13 Jan 23 17:40 sendmail -> /usr/bin/exim* lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 19 Jan 23 17:29 sendmail.exe -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe* so that the commands "sendmail" and "sendmail.exe" produce different results, cron keeps using exim and if exim is uninstalled then cron misbehaves. 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 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/
