I run qmail on Slackware 7.1 as well. On my system /bin/mail,
/bin/Mail and /bin/mailx are all symbolic links to /usr/bin/mail. The
difference here may be that I never install the sendmail packages. At
any rate I always just leave the above 4 links/files alone since
/usr/bin/mail is a usable mailer.
HTH,
Eric
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:36:32AM +0100, Alberto Dainotti wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but
> I've read the documentation and I'm missing something..
> In "REMOVE.binmail":
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3. If the binmail binary was /bin/mail, make sure that ``mail'' still
> invokes a usable mailer. Under SVR4 you may want to link mail to
> mailx.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> My question is: to what do I have to link /bin/mail ???
> /bin/mailx and /bin/mail were links to /bin/Mail, which I chmoded to 0
> following the instructions in "REMOVE.binmail"
> (My system is a slackware 7.1.)
>
> I tried to link /bin/mail to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-local .. seemed
> resonable to me .. and that's the result:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 03/11/01 11:24 los:qmail-1.03# ( echo 'Alberto Dainotti'; cat `cat SYSDEPS` ) |
>mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmail-local: usage: qmail-local [ -nN ] user homedir local dash ext domain sender
>aliasempty
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thank you,
> Alberto.
>
>