I've given up trying to file a bug report with Sun on this - if anyone else has the patience to do it then I'd be grateful. The SunOS 5.5 mailtool seems to follow symlinks when enabling the vacation feature, so if you ln -s /var/mail/luser ~/.forward and then enable vacation it copies /var/mail/luser to ~/.forward and appends "|/usr/bin/vacation me" to it (and moves the symlink to ~/.forward..BACKUP - I'm not sure if you can do any damage using that and I no longer have a 5.5 machine handy to check it). Neil. -- "For some reason all the very worst install scripts are written in csh." Geoff. Lane. (in bofh.jobfh.misc)