Where the heck is mailx

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 17:57:31 UTC 2006


On 8/25/06, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> I'm running RHEL3 on a server and I'm trying to find the mailx binary.
> The RPM db says it's installed (and the latest one I could find), but I
> cannot find mailx anywhere.  I have a script that I want to be able to
> mail certain data to myself and I've always used mailx for things like
> that.  Did I miss something?

On RHEL4 it is in redhat-lsb but it doesn't appear to be there on
RHEL3. I believe it is just a symlink to the mail command in any
event.

Out of curiosity, what rpm command did you run that suggests it is
installed? Perhaps that will clear things up...

John




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