Which packages for 'mail' and 'at' commands?

[Czernay]

Hi,

which packages do I have to install for the basic 'at' (add a command to the cron-queue for single execution later on) and 'mail' (just send a mail via local mailserver) commands?

Thanks for any hints,
Alexander

[UgolinoII]

renton root # etcat -b /bin/mail
Searching for /bin/mail in * ...
kde-base/kdenetwork-3.3.2
mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1
mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61

dunno about 'at'

[zen_guerrilla]

at & mailx respectively

[Czernay]

Thanks for your hints, but I couldn't find 'at' using etcat, as I don't know where it should reside.

I tried

etcat -b /bin/at
etcat -b /sbin/at
etcat -b /local/bin/at
etcat -b /local/sbin/at
etcat -b bin/at

but had no luck.

What further astonishes me is that I do have man-pages for 'at' on my machine, but not the 'at' command. I expected 'at' to belong to cron (I use vixie-cron), so I searched there, but with no luck.

Any more hints?

Alexander

[mko]

The package for at is sys-process/at
Now I've got one: What package contains this etcat?

[Czernay]

etcat is part of app-portage/gentoolkit

[mko]

Thanks.
You didn't find it using the above queries btw, because it's /usr/bin/at .
(Shouldn't bin/at have covered that, though?)

[andyfaeglasgow]

If what you want regarding the local mail is for things like cron and syslog to send mail directly to users inboxes without going though yahoo (or equivalent), then its probably easiest to use qmail. Follow the first half of the gentoo guide and stop when you can send mail directly to other users on your system.