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Mailx: command not found [message #269113]

Thu, 20 September 2007 13:32

harry07
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Location: now york

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Hi Gurus

OS:-RHEL 4
DB:-10.2.0.1

I'm trying to send mail through a script at OS level.

mailx -s "testing" xyz@vamu.com < temp.tmp

The error I get is -bash: mailx: command not found

Also I have the mailx package installed.
[ora_usr@oracle-dev SCRIPTS]$ rpm -q mailx
mailx-8.1.1-31.EL3

Can somebody help me to troubleshoot this problem

Regards

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269115 is a reply to message #269113]

Thu, 20 September 2007 13:46

BlackSwan
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Obviously mailx is NOT found in the PATH.
Alternatively use fully qualified pathname to mailx.

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269117 is a reply to message #269113]

Thu, 20 September 2007 14:00

harry07
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Thanks for your reply

Can you tell me how can I find the right path..

Regards

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269118 is a reply to message #269113]

Thu, 20 September 2007 14:06

BlackSwan
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>Can you tell me how can I find the right path..
I don't know where mailx resides on YOUR system.
Don't you know how to use "find" or "which"?

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269119 is a reply to message #269118]

Thu, 20 September 2007 14:37

harry07
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[ora_usr@oracle-dev bin]$ which -a sendmail
/usr/bin/which: no sendmail in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
:/usr/local/oracle/product/10.2.0/Db_1/bin:/home/ora_usr/bin)

I didn't find the file named mailx in these paths.

regards

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269120 is a reply to message #269119]

Thu, 20 September 2007 14:48

harry07
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I think I'm almost there...need your help at this point

I find in /home/ora_usr a file named mail.x ....

[ora_usr@oracle-dev ora_usr]$ more mail.x
  dba=dba@gmail.com
send_mail () {

        mailx -s "OTFCheck from host $(hostname) ad $(date)" $dba < $ORACLE_SID

}

but still I cannot send mail from this directory even.

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269173 is a reply to message #269120]

Thu, 20 September 2007 23:03

mson77
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Brazil

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Hello harry07,

use "find" command to search for files...
use "which" command to search for executables...

Run:

which mailx

You will find the exact location of this program.

In my case (fedora7)... I find at "/bin/mailx"
Then... "/bin" should be part of $PATH string (in my case).

Regards,

mson77

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269279 is a reply to message #269120]

Fri, 21 September 2007 08:05

joy_division
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Harry:

I am not sure what you are doing. You were asked to search for mailx yet you have done a which command on sendmail and did a more of mail.x.

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269298 is a reply to message #269279]

Fri, 21 September 2007 09:53

harry07
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[ora_usr@oracle-dev ora_usr]$ which mailx
/usr/bin/which: no mailx in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/oracle/product/10.2.0/Db_1/bin:/home/ora_usr/bin)

I did not find any mailx file in /usr/bin.

Thanks for being concerned.

Regards

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269323 is a reply to message #269298]

Fri, 21 September 2007 12:34

joy_division
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You have been told twice already to do a find for it.

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #269333 is a reply to message #269323]

Fri, 21 September 2007 13:36

harry07
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Yes I tried to find mailx file using

FIND Command but did not succeed( no file found in all directories and subdirectories).However if run

[root@oracle-dev /]# rpm -q mailx
mailx-8.1.1-31.EL3

I see the package mailx is installed.

Regards

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #270079 is a reply to message #269333]

Tue, 25 September 2007 11:21

harry07
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Hi

I do su - root/password

[root@oracle-dev root]# cd /
[root@oracle-dev /]# find -name mailx
I find no file returned as a result of the above command.

So can somebody suggest me.. what to do..

Regards

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Re: Mailx: command not found [message #270081 is a reply to message #269113]

Tue, 25 September 2007 11:33

BlackSwan
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>So can somebody suggest me.. what to do..
use the "mail" utility instead or install mailx on your system

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