Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:05:10 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: alydiomc@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply Message-ID: <991123400904170105t1fbc6ed3gbe5dc098318ba8c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49E830B0.6020707@ibctech.ca> References: <490628.66452.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <991123400904162235j2035f740l5b79247026b86836@mail.gmail.com> <49E830B0.6020707@ibctech.ca>
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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 > >> \alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc" > >> > >> .vacation.msg > >> Subject: On vacation message > >> From: alydio.mc@mydomain.com > >> I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while. > >> Your mail will be dealt with when I return. > >> . > >> from postfix/sendmail logs: > >> > >> ...sniff > >> (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` first, as that is a requirement. Of course he can also run with -d and watch the logs for clues. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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