From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 10 16:11: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from www.value.net (www-fr.value.net [207.33.92.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4804A15223 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by www.value.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01348; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost.value.net [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12171; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:10:13 -0700 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/11987: vacation(1) documentation and error logging both suck In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:01:52 +0200. <84942.929055712@axl.noc.iafrica.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:10:13 -0700 Message-ID: <12169.929056213@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <84942.929055712@axl.noc.iafrica.com>, you wrote: >Alternatively, and this is what I think would be best, scrap >.vacation.log and write to stderr. It's easy enough to redirect to a >file from .forward -- I'll even supply an example in the manpage. That's OK by me.... *if* sendmail will really honor redirection within a .forward file. > This >keeps inline with the fine tradition, "keep it simple, stupid". And it >just feels more UNIX. Well, if you REALLY wanted to take that tack the whole way, then the vacation(1) response message (addressed back to the original message sender) should be going to stdout, where it could just be piped to "sendmail -bm -t". But I suspect nobody wants to take it to THAT extreme. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message