On Nov 22 19:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin writes:
> > In fact, Windows symlinks can easily be created as dangling symlinks
> > as well. Try cmd's `mklink foo bar' with non-existent bar in developer
> > mode or an elevated shell.
>
> However you need to tell it if that
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin writes:
> In fact, Windows symlinks can easily be created as dangling symlinks
> as well. Try cmd's `mklink foo bar' with non-existent bar in developer
> mode or an elevated shell.
However you need to tell it if that name points to a directory or a
file, it cannot
On Nov 20 17:26, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 11/19/2021 7:07 PM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
> > alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is
> > possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows.
>
> You're talking about native Windows
On 11/19/2021 7:07 PM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is
possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows.
You're talking about native Windows symlinks, not Cygwin symlinks. The latter
can point to
On 2021-11-19 18:54, Doug Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 11:00, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb via Cygwin
wrote:
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
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 17:21, Andrey Repin via Cygwin 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 i
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
>
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 11:00, Kevin Andrew Lipscomb via Cygwin
wrote:
>
> 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
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
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