Brian you are absolutely rite. sendmail is not running on the server.
Thank you very much.
Brian Peasland wrote:
> muddu wrote:
> > Steve Howard wrote:
> >> muddu wrote:
> >>> Hi ,
> >>>
> >>> I am running a simple unix script but mailx option is not working .
> >>> please help me out.
> >>>
> >>> DAT=`date +%m%d%Y`
> >>> MAIL=mudassar.dba_at_gmail.com
> >>> AUDIT_DIR=$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit
> >>> DIR=/opt/oracle/adminscripts
> >>> . $DIR/parfiles/jobprofile
> >>>
> >>> cd $AUDIT_DIR
> >>>
> >>> #merge all .aud files to audit.log
> >>> cat *.aud > audit_$DAT.log
> >>>
> >>> mv audit_$DAT.log $DIR/logs/audit/
> >>> cd $DIR/logs/audit/
> >>>
> >>> #send audit.log to the mail recipient
> >>> mailx -s "Audit log file" $MAIL < audit_$DAT.log
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >> ps -ef | grep send
> >>
> >> ...to make sure sendmail is running.
> >
> > I executed this command and it is showing like this
> >
> > ps -ef|grep send
> > oracle 4632 4468 0 23:00:01 pts/3 0:00 grep send
> >
> > Can you please explain me regarding above numbers 4632 and 4468 ,0 ,
> > pts/3.
> >
> > thanks
> >
>
> The number 4632 is the process id of the "grep send" command. The number
> 4468 is the parent process id, or the process that spawned this command.
> This is your current Unix session.
>
> If sendmail was running, you should also have seen something similar to
> the following:
>
> root 576 1 0 Aug 28 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m
>
>
> Since you did not see /usr/lib/sendmail in your output above, it is
> clear at this point that sendmail is not even running on the server.
> That is why mailx is not working correctly. Please talk with your
> SysAdmins to get this issue resolved.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
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Received on Thu Aug 31 2006 - 19:36:51 CDT
