mailx defaulting to elm in user's aliases

[KPS]

Hi,

I have a user trying to send mailx messages from scripts, but when we diplay his aliases, it shows that:

mailx=elm

I'm not sure that we want that. It appears because this is causing mail to not get delivered where it is supposed to. Can anyone help me or guide me on how to get this out of his list of command aliases?


Thx,
-Ken

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Ken,
unalias mailx
You can check with alias
Regards

[Pete Randall]

Ken,

Aliases are typically set in the user's shell rc file (.kshrc, .cshrc, .login), though they could be set in a .profile or something. Search their home directory with "grep mailx /home/USER/*" to see if you can find where this is being set. If you don't see it there, try /etc/profile.

As a temporary fix, you can just unalias it.


Pete

[KPS]

Thanks Guys,

Unaliasing it out of the user's profile did the trick!