Sendmail by command line in cPanel

[Pputnik]

Hello,

What should I do if there's no /bin/mail?

# /bin/mail
-bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory

the only 'mail' I found is /usr/local/cpanel/bin/admin/Cpanel/mail, but it does not answer either on --help or just attempt to start from shell.

WHM 58.0 (build 31)

Please advise.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Are you accessing the command line as the "root" user? If so, what's the output when you run the "whereis mail" command? It's located at /usr/bin/mail on a test system running CentOS 7.

Thank you.

 

[Pputnik]

hi Michael,

Are you accessing the command line as the "root" user?

yes

If so, what's the output when you run the "whereis mail" command?

mail: /etc/mail
Also
# mail
-bash: mail: command not found

It's located at /usr/bin/mail on a test system running CentOS 7.

# ll /usr/bin/mail

/bin/ls: cannot access /usr/bin/mail: No such file or directory

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Amazon Linux AMI"
VERSION="2016.09"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2016.09"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2016.09:ga"
HOME_URL="http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/"

AMAZON Enterprise 2016.09 x86_64 xenhvm – aw

Thank you.

 

[cPanelMichael]

You can try manually installing the package with a command such as:

yum install mailx

Thank you.