Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Steve Bertrand <steve at ibctech.ca> wrote:

> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:00 AM, lyd mc <alydiomc at 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 at 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.




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