mailx not found on RH EL30

[Nick D'Angelo]

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

[rajdev]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

mail -s

provides mailx functionality.

If you have mailx scripts, set up an alias.

SEP

[Jimmy Vance]

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

[dirk dierickx]

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.