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Old 03-21-2017
-bash: sendmail: command not found
Hello Experts,

I have been trying to send a test mail in our linux server with sendmail command.But I am getting command not found error message.

-->when I tried whether sendmail installed or not with the command

rpm -qa sendmail* I got the below,

Code:
sendmail-cf-8.14.4-8.el6.noarch
sendmail-8.14.4-8.el6.x86_64

--> I can able to see sendmail.mc and sendmail.cf files under /etc/mail directory

Can anyone suggest why I am getting this command not found error message??

Server details: RHEL 6.5


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# 2  
Old 03-21-2017
Is sendmail found in the $PATH? What's the output of
Code:
whereis sendmail

?
# 3  
Old 03-21-2017
Is sendmail alias'd? Try typing "alias sendmail" and see if you get anything.
# 4  
Old 03-21-2017
yeah I tried,

-> "which sendmail" got below

/usr/bin/which: no sendmail in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/hyperion/bin)


->"where is sendmail" got command not found

->"alias sendmail" got command not found
# 5  
Old 03-21-2017
Hi,

Hmm, that's odd. Anyway, try a full path of /usr/sbin/sendmail maybe ? That's where it's most likely to be found.

Also: were you typing whereis as one word (which would be correct, and as per RudiC's post) or were you typing it as two words (which wouldn't have worked) ?

Anyway, see how you get on with that path (which should be correct for RHEL/CentOS 6 x86_64, which is what I'm guessing you're using from that rpm output).
# 6  
Old 03-21-2017
yes this time tried with "whereis sendmail" got below output

sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
# 7  
Old 03-21-2017
OK...so did you try /usr/sbin/sendmail ?
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