yeah this isfine. But In the Program I have given like my $sendmailPath=PATH WHERE IT IS INSTALLED.
In the perl program itself I need to finfd it out As I don;t want to do it everytime I change it to a new server... Anish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anish Kumar K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Perl Beginners List" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:39 AM Subject: Re: How to get the sendmail path > 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! > > > -- > Chris Devers > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
