topic Re: unable to use sendmail command as user in Operating System - HP-UX

unable to use sendmail command as user

Jade Bulante — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:15:23 GMT

I modified the .profile and .dtprofile to have path for sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail but unable to execute. I get error sh sendmail not found. How do I fix this?

Re: unable to use sendmail command as user

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:28:18 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried using the absolute path to sendmail. if /usr/sbin/sendmail works then check your path once again.

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: unable to use sendmail command as user

Jade Bulante — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:30:51 GMT

Absolute path works but I want user to just issue sendmail command.

Re: unable to use sendmail command as user

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:33:26 GMT

Hi,

then check the path syntax. You might be making a mistake. Are you exporting the PATH variable after adding /usr/sbin to it.

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: unable to use sendmail command as user

Jade Bulante — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:37:31 GMT

Yes, part of the .profile is to export the path. Could it be that you need to be a super user to send mail?

Re: unable to use sendmail command as user

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:42:03 GMT

Hi,

You don't need to be root to use sendmail. If you are able to use sendmail from the command line using the absolute path for sendmail, then you should be able to use sendmail without the absolute path if the search path "/usr/sbin" is added into your .profile.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

hope this helps.

Regds

Re: unable to use sendmail command as user

Jade Bulante — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:44:31 GMT

Thanks. It works.