Where is vacation?

[Collin O'Neill]

Well, I found and compiled the vacation program from its home page but 
it doesn't appear to work properly with this configuration.  I might 
have to tweak the configuration parameters.

On your suggestion, I checked out Procmail scripts and it appears it 
would be a better solution to just use a script.  However, the default 
forward files contain a procmail command to run "| /usr/bin/vacation" 
regardless of wether or not it's present.  I have to find a way to 
remove this command line automatically.

Off to the Procmail and Postfix lists....

Thanks for you help!


Derick Centeno wrote:

> Suggestion:  Why not take the time to consider just what the commands 
> actually do and research that well with the distro where it is used.  
> Once you understand the structure or sequence of what is implemented 
> there, then you will be better enabled to consider, as a programmer, 
> steps which could be implemented within either a script or macro 
> within a different distro.  It may be that what you believe are 
> commands are really scripts running within a shell perhaps not much 
> different than a computer responding to a login as, "Good Morning, Mr. 
> Phelps...."
>
> You could always implement the script from within a . file or dot file.
>
> Best wishes....
>
> On Mar 17, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Collin O'Neill wrote:
>
>> Good point.  I guess now my question is what tools do I use to 
>> perform the same functions as Vacation and Forwards? Perhaps I can 
>> download and compile source code? Time for a search....
>>
>> -Collin
>>
>> Derick Centeno wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Collin:
>>> I don't think the commands you are looking for are so much hidden as 
>>> they are unique to Debian.  That happens occasionally within the 
>>> world of Linux and Unix.  Even commercial versions of Unix differ 
>>> from one another, so you are not going to expect free or GPL based 
>>> distros to be standard either -- right???
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Collin O'Neill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm familiar with using the UNIX vacation and forward commands with 
>>>> Debian Linux.  I can't find them on my YD4.0 installation, nor any 
>>>> mention of them in documentation, mailing lists, yum, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Where the heck did Terrasoft hide the vacation and forward commands?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Collin
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