Where the heck is mailx

[Mark Haney]

inode0 wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>> inode0 wrote:
>> >
>> > Out of curiosity, what rpm command did you run that suggests it is
>> > installed? Perhaps that will clear things up...
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> Yeah I missed something.  Apparently, mailx is just a symlink to mail.
>> But this doesn't really fix the problem I'm having now, which is my
>> script doesn't run as mail requires a CTRL+D in order to send the
>> message.  How do I get around that?
>
> I usually do something like
>
> mail -s subject foo at bar.com < some-file
>
> or
>
> echo "text to mail" | mail -s subject foo at bar.com
>
> John
>
Yep, that did it.  Thanks a bunch everyone.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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