Re: [Exim] Switching Exim on

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Author: Roger Burton West
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Switching Exim on
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:05:10AM +0200, Peter Salvage wrote:
>Am I correct in stating that I need to issue the following command:
>'ln -fs /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/exim/bin/exim' ?


No!

(1) the ln is the wrong way round (I used to do this a lot);

(2) the use of "-f" will prevent you from getting a warning before you
wipe out your exim binary.

I recommend never using "-f", but manually removing/renaming files which
are to be replaced by links.

Roger