| VACATION(1) | NetBSD General Commands Manual | VACATION(1) |
| vacation | -dIi [-f databasefile] [-m messagefile] [-r interval] [-t interval] |
| vacation | -dj [-a alias] [-F F|R|S] [-f databasefile] [-m messagefile] [-s sender] [-T A|D] login |
\eric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and reply to any messages for “eric” or “allman”.
Available options:
infinite” (actually, any non-numeric character) will never send more than one reply. It should be noted that intervals of “0” are quite dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into “I am on vacation” loops.No message will be sent unless login (or an alias supplied using the -a option) is part of either the “To:” or “Cc:” headers of the mail. No messages from “???-REQUEST”, “Postmaster”, “UUCP”, “MAILER”, or “MAILER-DAEMON” will be replied to (where these strings are case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a “Precedence: bulk” “Precedence: list” or “Precedence: junk” line is included in the mail headers. The people who have sent you messages are maintained as a db(3) database in the file .vacation.db in your home directory.
vacation expects a file .vacation.msg, in your home directory, containing a message to be sent back to each sender. It should be an entire message (including headers). If the message contains the string $SUBJECT then it will will be replaced with the subject of the original message. For example, it might contain:
From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Subject: I am on vacation Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program Precedence: bulk I am on vacation until July 22. Your mail regarding "$SUBJECT" will be read when I return. If you have something urgent, please contact Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>. --eric
vacation reads the first line from the standard input for a UNIX “From” line to determine the sender. sendmail(8) includes this “From” line automatically.
Fatal errors, such as calling vacation with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent logins, are logged in the system log file, using syslog(3).
| August 19, 2004 | NetBSD 5.99 |