From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Csapo Subject: strange mail behavior Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:05:41 -0600 Message-ID: <4C2CCAE5.5040804@exchange.mines.edu> Reply-To: ycsapo@mines.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a number of identical virtual Linux machines (All RedHat Enterprise AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)) and on one of them, invoking the 'mail' command generates an error, although the command itself gets executed correctly. This is what I mean: [root@overlook mail]# ls|mail -s "test" ycsapo@mines.edu Unknown command: "" But I do receive the message. To compare, here's the same thing on one of the other boxes: [root@trailhead ycsapo]# ls|mail -s "test" ycsapo@mines.edu Null message body; hope that's ok And I also receive the message. By the way, I see the same thing even if I invoke mail all by itself with no params. I can't find a difference in configuration between the boxes. Any ideas where to look? Thanks Yuri - -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines CT-256 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@mines.edu Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== The idea that an arbitrary human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws). - -- Doug Gwyn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMLMrlAAoJEKIAUGoymiHAbGUIALMn0EhBI+bKkZzbInE6zNWa WhewuJ3LmuYVGgbiYRbKXeGUEqUbtzBhO46pUU9GwVwHTAMNm5f+VwXX16qNUZv0 iXMvNSdpQxT75YAXbue2pbyjq+ti982KJnxjhFeM+QUhA/F3hfKl8058hZFxue0c KaPDyLSUm+R9UjXD4nTmxWX4PhX4eH7X+azpHrNzxI2gCwM2utzV5+zpVvTQHFiE y9lB3tU4FMpJ1yTqsmMa9uYCf+PjQspSMjIqV+QIPO9zl9/KaxVKNm15yi3GN6ep x4nHOAFoxX7R4Ztgsvfrv+jRE+ZJX1doGNwyhEy1P0zwI8juRVpvV3AphX2HIbs= =3JiJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----