[BlueOnyx:17246] general question

[Dirk Estenfeld]

Hello,

I have a general question. No issue or something like this. I only want to understand it ;)

On a 5208R I have searched for the command mailq and found that there are a lot of symlinks:

[root at server etc]# ls -lah /usr/bin/mailq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 15. Nov 11:21 /usr/bin/mailq -> /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq
[root at server etc]# ls -lah  /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 15. Nov 11:21 /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq -> /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
[root at server etc]# ls -lah /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 25 15. Nov 10:57 /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail -> ../sbin/sendmail.sendmail
[root at server etc]# ls -lah /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios smmsp 814K 24. Nov 2010  /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

Is this common? What is the idea behind this?
Why are there so much symlinks for the command mailq?

regards,
Dirk


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