strange mail behavior

strange mail behavior

[Yuri Csapo]

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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

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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:
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Re: strange mail behavior

[Nicolas Maupu]

Hi,

Does /var/log/mail.log say something useful ?

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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 19:05, Yuri Csapo <ycsapo@exchange.mines.edu> wrote:
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Re: strange mail behavior

[Marshall Lake]

> [root@overlook mail]# ls|mail -s "test" ycsapo@mines.edu
> Unknown command: ""

Do you have either a ~/.mailrc file or a /etc/mail.rc file containing an 
error?

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Re: strange mail behavior

[Yuri Csapo]

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Marshall, that did it! Somehow my /etc/mail.rc ended up replaced by a tarball of /etc/mail. I bet
it's autocompletion playing its tricks again...

Problem solved, thanks!

Yuri

On 7/1/10 1:16 PM, Marshall Lake wrote:
> 
>> [root@overlook mail]# ls|mail -s "test" ycsapo@mines.edu
>> Unknown command: ""
> 
> Do you have either a ~/.mailrc file or a /etc/mail.rc file containing an 
> error?
> 

- -- 
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
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