Bernard Leak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My system has developed, for hysterical reasons, as a minimal > installation of GNU/Linux on a P4. Minimal really was minimal - no > networking, no X... Everything else has been added on demand. I > managed to get my networking running with no problems without ever > encountering mail, Mail, mailx, or any version of sendmail. Don't > blame the distribution - but surely I'm not alone in my position?
Interesting. I would have expected you to have trouble with cron, which likes sending mail - or maybe you skipped it, too? > Zack and Bob, however, *have* been helpful (thanks to both of you!), > and in my darker and more cynical moments I suspect them of being > experienced Unix persons themselves. Aheh, yes, you could say that. > Can something be done to make the problem less obstructive? > It's not obvious that the script should try to be too clever and > work out which name to use. Mail looks as useful as any name > it can have hard-coded. However, a comment could be added > to the script *output* [... more useful suggestions ...] This is where I quietly mention that patches are welcome. zw
