Re: [SLUG] whence /bin/mail ?

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 14:48:05 EST

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Mike Branda wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:36 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Tyler Vann-Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> One of the postfix guru might be able to help you find the specific MTA
>>> location for postfix.
>>
>> Thanks. Do you know where I could find one?
>
> Is this the same thing you're referring to?
>
> www:/ # which mail
> /usr/bin/mail
> www:/ # ls -la /usr/bin/mail
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2005-11-15 20:01 /usr/bin/mail -> nail
> www:/ # rpm -q --whatprovides nail
> mailx-11.4-4

Thanks, I found "nail" without mailx. Not too bad:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 294012 2005-06-30 04:53 /usr/bin/nail

What I used to have:

-rwxr-xr-x root/man 83905 2002-06-23 16:34:47 /bin/mail

I should make a link /usr/bin/mail -> nail to head off many typos. 

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