clayc@uunet.uu.net (Clay Calhoun (Western)) (11/27/90)
OK - so I have been frustrated to the point where I am actually going to
ask for help.... :-)
I can't make the 'vacation' program run to automatically respond to mail!
I've followed the man pages, and when that didn't work - started trying
'other' things, like changing all the permissions on the .vacation.* files
to 666, the permissions on directories to 777, editing/ reversing the
order in the .forward file, changing the name of the .vacation.msg file
(see below for why NOTES #2)....
The executable (/usr/ucb/vaction) is set to 755....and /usr/ucb is set to
755. I've tried different iterations of the .vacation.msg file... ie.
deleting blank lines, etc..........and nothing. :-(
Here's the scenario:
1. I log in as guest
Guest doesn't have vacation activated
2. I build the .forward file *just* as it says
3. I run 'vacation -I'
4. I log out of guest, and in as clayc
5. I mail a message to guest
6. I log out of clayc and in as guest
7. guest has received my message
8. *BUT* there's no record of it in either .vacation.dir or .vacation.pag
9. I log out of guest and in as clayc
10. clay hasn't received a message from guest stating that he's on vacation
NOTES: the man pages are unclear
1. the second paragraph says not to include a 'From:' line in the
.vacation.msg file - but if I run 'vacation' with no options, and
without having built a .vacation.msg file, then the application
puts a 'From:" line in the file! What's the deal?
2. At the end of the man pages, under the FILES section, it refers me
to "$HOME/.vacation.mesg. Where did .vacation.mesg come from - a
typo in .vacation.msg?
So what's the deal? Have you guys run across this before? We're running
4.0.3. I tried it this afternoon on a different box, and it wouldn't work
there either.
So what stupid mistake am I overlooking? Help!
Here's my ls:
<some deleted>
drwxrwxr-x 13 clayc 1024 Nov 10 17:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 78 root 1536 Nov 8 08:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 514 Oct 26 10:17 .cshrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 clayc 29 May 1 1990 .exrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 35 Nov 10 17:54 .forward
-rw-rw-r-- 1 clayc 481 Nov 9 09:51 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 4375 Nov 9 09:56 .mailrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 clayc 7979 Nov 9 09:05 .newsrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 clayc 801 Nov 9 09:38 .plan
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 633 Oct 17 11:16 .signature
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 0 Nov 10 17:54 .vacation.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 169 Nov 10 17:54 .vacation.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 clayc 0 Nov 10 17:54 .vacation.pag
Here's the .forward:
\clayc, "|/usr/ucb/vacation clayc"
Here's the .vacation.msg file that running 'vacation' *generates* itself
when run w/o options:
From: clayc (via the vacation program)
Subject: away from my mail
I will not be reading my mail for a while.
Your mail regarding "$SUBJECT" will be read when I return.
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cheers,
clay
ssds!clayc@uunet.uu.net