Re: Detecting the installed MTA

[Sebastian Ley <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de>]

* Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:

> During packaging, that is, during the installation of a package, I need to
> determine which MTA is currently installed, since I need to set certain
> permissions specific to my package, so that they match with those of the
> currently running MTA.

Might be hackish, but seems to work:

dpkg -S /usr/sbin/sendmail | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'

Regards,
Sebastian

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