Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:35:53 -0700 (PDT) From: lyd mc <alydiomc@yahoo.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply Message-ID: <802679.57733.qm@web52203.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400904170105t1fbc6ed3gbe5dc098318ba8c4@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, I already did vacation -i as per the manual say but it still does not auto = reply. --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote: From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply To: "Steve Bertrand" <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: alydiomc@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 4:05 PM On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:00 AM, lyd mc <alydiomc@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto >> reply? >> >> I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. >> >> Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc) >> >> .forward >> =A0 =A0 \alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc" >> >> .vacation.msg >> =A0 =A0Subject: On vacation message >> =A0 =A0From: alydio.mc@mydomain.com >> =A0 =A0I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while. >> =A0 Your mail will be dealt with when I return. >> . >> from postfix/sendmail logs: >> >> ...sniff >> =A0(delivered to command: /usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc) >> >> after this nothing will happened... no errors.... no warnings... >> >> However the one I installed from ports (/usr/local/bin/vacation) works >> fine. >> >> >> I want to use the freebsd base vacation program. > > > Did you read the man page fully and understand it? > Did you initialize the vacation database? > Have you tried to run it in debug mode? > Try RTFM again and see if you could figure out the problem yourself. Wow... wait a sec... I recall years ago having to deal with 'vacation' messages along with sendmail, and with thousands of users, I hated doing it manually. Perhaps a ``how I do it'' is warranted here. It is quite apparent that the OP has RTFM, _and_ tried to work it out for himself... I was waiting for the OP to say that he actually did run `vacation -i` firs= t, as that is a requirement. Of course he can also run with -d and watch the logs for clues. --=20 Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _=20 "Clothes make the man. =A0Naked people have little or no influence on socie= ty." =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Mark Twain =0A=0A=0A
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?802679.57733.qm>