Re: strange mail behavior

Yuri Csapo <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:33:40 -0600
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-admin
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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" [email protected]
>> Unknown command: ""
> 
> Do you have either a ~/.mailrc file or a /etc/mail.rc file containing an 
> error?
> 

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