[ale] mailx

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Jan 28 19:57:07 EST 2005


Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> We have RedHat Enterprise update 3 running.  We have a group who want
> to use mailx with korn shell scripts.

My kinda folks!

> I tried to install the mailx rpm from the install CD but rpm says
> that mailx is already installed.  I can not "locate" "mailx"
> anywhere.  I have used mailx from HPUX and so I know to expect the
> test based mail tool to come up when I type "mailx".  Is mailx on
> Linux aliased to somethng?

On my Red Hat Workstation box:

rhws/esc/pgrnd/prog> rpm -ql mailx-8.1.1-31
/bin/mail
/etc/mail.rc
/usr/bin/Mail
/usr/lib/mail.help
/usr/lib/mail.tildehelp
/usr/share/man/man1/Mail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz

It appears they may just call it /bin/mail

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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