stanonik@nprdc.arpa (Ron Stanonik) (11/19/88)
One of our users recently used the vacation program. Mail to him from folks on the same machine was properly replied to by vacation. Mail from folks on other machines generated to="|vacation csl", stat=unknown mailer error 1 From our sendmail.cf file, we're using /bin/sh as the prog mailer, and it appears that local mail inherits the sender's path (including /usr/ucb where vacation lives), whereas remote mail uses the default /bin/sh path of :/bin:/usr/bin (ie, no /usr/ucb, so vacation is unknown). Well, we could fix this several ways, add /usr/ucb to /bin/sh's default path, ln -s vacation to /usr/bin, switch the prog mailer to /bin/csh (which includes /usr/ucb in it's default path), etc. Folks here have only recently discovered the vacation program (problem). I suspect this problem was hashed out long ago by other systems, so the question is, "How did you deal with it?". Thanks, Ron Stanonik stanonik@nprdc.arpa
andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle) (11/21/88)
I too have spent time tracking down this problem. I told everyone to put /usr/ucb/vacation in the .forward file. You could update your man entry too. --Andy Ingle