On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 17:21, Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Greetings, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb! > > > ssmtp-config fails silently on step 6 at the first call to > > /usr/sbin/alternatives. > > > I isolated the alternatives command, added the --verbose switch to it, and > > ran the result from a bash shell that was launched as Administrator. The > > command fails immediately after emitting: > > > reading /var/lib/alternatives/mta > > > I am also reporting this as a bug in alternatives at bugzilla.redhat.com.
> alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is > possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows. If that is the case, a possible workaround is to issue the following command from an elevated shell touch /var/lib/alternatives/mta and make sure the ownership and permissions are identical to the other files, e.g. in my case: $ ls -l /var/lib/alternatives total 8.0K -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 41 Jul 16 11:25 2to3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 52 Jul 16 11:25 gnuplot -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 218 Jun 16 17:48 lua -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 77 Jun 5 08:46 pip3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 85 Jun 5 08:46 pydoc3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 110 Jun 16 07:34 python -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 89 Jun 5 08:46 python3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 59 Jul 16 11:25 python3-config -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple