mail: command not found

[celliott]

Hi,

You used to be able to have a short script to notify you via email when someone logs in as root, however on some CentOS 5 + cPanel servers this isnt working, it's returning:

mail: command not found

Any ideas?

 

[Ghulam Yaseen]

Yaseen

Hello ,

If you are using the internet on your server then please try this
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yum install mail
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[kampret]

yum install mail --> No package mail available.
you should run :

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yum install mailx
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[JaredR.]

kampret is correct. The mail command should be present by default on CentOS 5. It is provided by the mailx package.

# which mail
/bin/mail
# rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/mail
mailx-8.1.1-44.2.2

Installing mailx using yum will make the mail command available.

 

[goldy_rocky]

Thanks, Works like a charm..............

Thanks,