Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 06:20 AM 12/12/2005 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Krzysztof Duleba on 12/12/2005 3:35 AM: >> >> And ln -s -f a b produces b ==> a if a.exe doesn't exist yet. > >You are correct that the behavior of cygwin ln in the presence of symlinks

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Krzysztof Duleba on 12/12/2005 3:35 AM: > > And ln -s -f a b produces b ==> a if a.exe doesn't exist yet. You are correct that the behavior of cygwin ln in the presence of symlinks has not been consistent in the past. I think the curren

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: I still don't understand how the .exe got to appear... What I observe here is that if a.exe exists, then ln -s a b produces b.exe ==> a.exe (weird to me) However ln -s a.exe b produces b ==>a.exe So that explains how sendmail.exe appears when exim.exe exists, but doesn'

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Krzysztof Duleba" To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:02 PM Subject: Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Hum, I just installed the latest exim on a new machine and can't reproduce what you describe. exim

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-08 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: 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/b

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-08 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Pierre A. Humblet 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/exi

Re: exim 4.54-1 and broken symlinks

2005-12-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- 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. T