[BlueOnyx:17249] Re: general question

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Dirk,

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

Indeed. That's quite annoying, isn't it?

That's some RedHat idiosyncrasy. They ship with Sendmail and Postfix as
MTA. While Postfix is designed to be a "drop in Sendmail replacement":
You can't really have both installed at the same time as they do the
same job and share some binary locations.

So to get this to work RedHat installs them into different directories
and then just symlink certain commands to the MTA that you actually want
to use.

What RedHat did there works, but all those weird symlinks are a bit
confusing at times.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber