From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 17:45: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.amplespace.com (shell.amplespace.com [209.172.89.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFD737B720 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doneil@amplespace.com) Received: from digerati (digerati.whtech.com [10.1.0.2]) by shell.amplespace.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA30207 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:42:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doneil@amplespace.com) From: "Don O'Neil" To: Subject: Problems with vacation.. Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:42:51 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone help me figure out why this doesn't work: In my .forward I have: don, "|/bin/sh/ -c '/usr/bin/vacation -d -d sysadmin root' 2>/root/.vacation.log" When I send an email to root at that system, I get the forwarded copy, but then I get: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/bin/sh/ -c '/usr/bin/vacation -d -d sysadmin root' 2>/root/.vacation.log" (expanded from: ) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/bin/sh/ -c '/usr/bin/vacation -d -d sysadmin root' 2>/root/.vacation.log"... unknown mailer error 2 Here's what's in my .vacation.msg file: From: root@amplespace.com (Root) Subject: Auto Response test 123 Nothing is put in the .vacation.log for me to debug. What am I doing wrong? I'm just trying to setup a simple autoresponder and forward the email on to myself if someone sends an email to root@amplespace.com. Any help would be appreciated. Don't worry about the possible mail-loops.... this is just an example setup. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message