topic mailx not found on RH EL30 in Operating System - Linux

mailx not found on RH EL30

Nick D'Angelo — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:50:34 GMT

I have numerous scripts that use mailx and not sendmail.

Rather than go through them one by one, is there something else that I can do?

My sendmail exists in /usr/sbin or /etc/alternatives/mta.

quite confusing to be honest, it seems to just loop to itself over and over.

Thanks.
Nickd

Re: mailx not found on RH EL30

rajdev — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:17:24 GMT

Hi,

On my RH EL 4 mailx is installed in /bin/mailx and is actually a link to /bin/mail.

also /usr/sbin/sendmail points to /etc/alternatives/mta which points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

Regards,
RD

Re: mailx not found on RH EL30

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:23:18 GMT

"mail" in linux provides HPUX's "mailx" functionality.
So you can just create a symlink "mailx" to "mail".

Re: mailx not found on RH EL30

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:46:31 GMT

Shalom,

mail -s

provides mailx functionality.

If you have mailx scripts, set up an alias.

SEP

Re: mailx not found on RH EL30

Jimmy Vance — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:25:10 GMT

Red Hat provides the mailx rpm package for RHEL3, and RHEL4 but the packages I looked into didn't include the symlink for mailx that points to mail.

SuSE includes an enhanced version of mail called nail and has symlinks for mailx that point to nail

Re: mailx not found on RH EL30

dirk dierickx — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:15:04 GMT

there is no mailx on linux, if you look at most scripts made to run on multiple unix versions, you will notice that they will always perform a 'mailx' check and default it to 'mail' when running on linux.