Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:14:38 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.cisco.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/15227: New option for vacation(1) -- dir to use instead of $HOME Message-ID: <199912021814.NAA60391@misha.cisco.com>
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>Number: 15227
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: New option for vacation(1) -- dir to use instead of $HOME
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 2 10:20:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mikhail Teterin
>Release: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Virtual Estates, Inc.
>Environment:
>Description:
The existing vacation(1) program is nice, but you can only have
one database and message with it. Yet, I found it neccessary on
several occasions to have different responses send in response
to different e-mails, and even created a special user once, just
for that.
You still need some smart mail-handling software such as procmail,
but using it can be much simpler if you do not need to script what
vacation(1) already provides.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Before the patches below are committed, the only alternative is
to use home-cooked scripts.
--- vacation.c.orig Tue Sep 28 18:42:09 1999
+++ usr.bin/vacation/vacation.c Thu Dec 2 12:45:08 1999
@@ -117,2 +117,3 @@
int ch, iflag, lflag, mfail, ufail;
+ char *dir = NULL;
@@ -120,3 +121,3 @@
interval = -1;
- while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "a:dIilr:")) != -1) {
+ while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "a:dIilr:D:")) != -1) {
switch((char)ch) {
@@ -150,2 +151,5 @@
break;
+ case 'D':
+ dir = optarg;
+ break;
case '?':
@@ -183,5 +187,7 @@
}
- if (chdir(pw->pw_dir)) {
+ if (!dir)
+ dir = pw->pw_dir;
+ if (chdir(dir)) {
msglog(LOG_NOTICE,
- "vacation: no such directory %s.\n", pw->pw_dir);
+ "vacation: %s: %s.\n", dir, strerror(errno));
exit(1);
--- vacation.1.orig Mon Aug 30 03:15:30 1999
+++ usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1 Thu Dec 2 12:56:49 1999
@@ -45,2 +45,3 @@
.Op Fl r Ar interval
+.Op Fl D Ar dir
.Nm vacation
@@ -48,4 +49,6 @@
.Fl l
+.Op Fl D Ar dir
.Nm vacation
.Op Fl d
+.Op Fl D Ar dir
.Op Fl a Ar alias
@@ -78,2 +81,10 @@
Enable debugging mode. See below.
+.It Fl D Ar dir
+Use
+.Ar dir
+instead of the user's home directory. This can be used
+to allow the same user respond differently to different
+messages, or to simply speed up mail processing by placing
+the database "closer" to the mailserver (local filesystem
+vs. NFS, for example).
.It Fl i
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