On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote: > Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >Luke Kendall wrote: > >> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. > > > > exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config > > script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts with > > postinstall scripts. > > Hmmm. So perhaps the appropriate new behavior for ssmtp is to do the > same thing, asking the user whether to create such a link in the > ssmtp-config. I think so. Anyone else advise otherwise?
That's a good point. Yes, I guess ssmtp-config should do that, the same way as the exim-config script (perhaps you can just use Pierre's code. Would that be ok, Pierre?). I've prepared a cron package for upload with a postinstall script which doesn't create the /usr/bin/sendmail symlink anymore. I'll upload it as soon as Robert has prepared a new ssmtp package for upload. I've also added a few words to /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README about the dependency to /usr/bin/sendmail :-) > Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific > information in a man page? Well, from a user perspective it might be cool, but IMHO the original man page shouldn't be changed, unless it's a change which should be send upstream anyway. We have the Cygwin specific documentation in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (resp. /usr/doc/Cygwin in earlier releases) for a long time now. It should be not too hard to ask users to look there for Cygwin specific docs. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/