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John


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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 5:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] mailx


on a fedora core 1 machine (which is similar to RHES3): [mmurphy at xwing mmurphy]$ rpm -qa |grep mailx mailx-8.1.1-31.1

[mmurphy at xwing mmurphy]$ rpm -q --list mailx-8.1.1-31.1 /bin/mail /etc/mail.rc /usr/bin/Mail /usr/lib/mail.help /usr/lib/mail.tildehelp /usr/share/man/man1/Mail.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz

So it seems that mailx == /bin/mail. Looking at the usage statement of 
/bin/mail on that machine and comparing it to that of mailx on a solaris 
machine, it seems that that mail has the same major flags that mailx 
does (like -s subject, etc).

So, I suspect you can use /bin/mail as a mailx substitute safely. You 
might want to symlink /bin/mailx to /bin/mail for something...

Mike



Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
&gt; We have RedHat Enterprise update 3 running.  We have a group who want 
&gt; to
&gt; use mailx with korn shell scripts. 
&gt;  
&gt; I tried to install the mailx rpm from the install CD but rpm says that
&gt; mailx is already installed.  I can not &quot;locate&quot; &quot;mailx&quot; anywhere.  I 
&gt; have used mailx from HPUX and so I know to expect the test based mail 
&gt; tool to come up when I type &quot;mailx&quot;.  Is mailx on Linux aliased to somethng?
&gt;  
&gt; John
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