On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Anish Kumar K wrote:
> Isn't there a easy way [to find sendmail] [question-mark]
If you're on a Unix-ish platform, and the sendmail program is installed
somewhere in your $PATH, the `which` command can help. For instance:
$ which sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
$
This is on OSX. It can be other places on other platforms.
If it isn't in your $PATH, then the `locate` command may help. Chances
are, it's going to be in a directory no deeper than three or four levels
down, so we can use `grep -v` to exclude deeper paths:
$ locate sendmail | grep -v '/.*/.*/.*/.*/'
/Users/cdevers/bin/update_sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
$
This turns it up again, along with a false hit in my home directory.
Chances are you'll get similiar false hits, but hopefully the real one
will be clear enough.
If you don't have the `locate` database on your system, you're going to
have to walk the while filesystem, using something like `find`. Here's
one way to do it, but it will be very, very, very slow:
$ find / -type f | grep -v '/.*/.*/.*/.*/'
The output from this should be similar to what `locate` would have; with
luck you'll see it in a folder like /usr/lib, /usr/libexec, /usr/sbin,
/usr/local/bin, /opt/bin, et cetera.
Good luck!
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Chris Devers
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