Problems with the command alternatives

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:46:26 am Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On the system in question, I type the command in, even by itself and 
> NOTHING seems to happen.  No output at all.

I also have Fedora 12 and as you point out, it prints information on help.  
Try the following and compare:

which alternatives 
...gives you the actual PATH of the command you're trying)

rpm -qf /usr/sbin/alternatives
...shows that it comes with the chkconfig package. 

ls -l /usr/sbin/alternatives  gives me:

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 23700 2009-09-29 16:52 /usr/sbin/alternatives

My chkconfig package is: chkconfig-1.3.44-1.i686

Check /var/log/messages...

Other than that, it is strange indeed.

--
Jorge