Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:56:40 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Thierry Black" <thierryblack@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .vacation: Permission denied Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020710165640.02e79b20@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <F90ArVc4Iu1B6gVs1tI0000d50b@hotmail.com>
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At 03:40 PM 7.10.2002 -0600, Thierry Black wrote: >Hi, > >Im trying to use the vacation program to set up an autoresponder. First I >did "vacation -i", and it created ~/.vacation.db (64KB). The home directory >is 0755. I created the following .vacation.msg, 0644: > >From: thierry@domain.com >Subject: Out of the office > >Out of the office. > >Then in /etc/mail/aliases I put > >thierry: "|/usr/bin/vacation thierry", thierry > >I still get messages delivered to me, but the vacation program does not want >to work: > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >"|/usr/bin/vacation thierry" > (reason: data format error) > (expanded from: <thierry@domain.com>) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >vacation: .vacation: Permission denied >501 5.6.0 Data format error > >Whats with ".vacation: permission denied"? Is .vacation supposed to exist? >I could not find any reference to this. > >My maillog shows basically the same thing as above. > >Im using sendmail plus cyrus for lacal delivery. > >thierry > Where did you get the instructions to put that in aliases? Mine works by setting up a .forward file as shown by : VACATION(1) DESCRIPTION Vacation returns a message to the sender of a message telling them that you are currently not reading your mail. The intended use is in a .forward file. For example, your .forward file might have: \eric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric" which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``all- man''. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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