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- From: ebel@lcaohp2.epfl.ch (Norbert Ebel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: vacation
- Message-ID: <4506@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:47:09 GMT
- Sender: news@sicsun.epfl.ch
- Reply-To: ebel@lcaohp1.epfl.ch
- Organization: EPFL.
- Lines: 35
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- Hi netters,
- I'm desperatly trying to let vacation work for me. It wont. According to the man page
- I have
- 1) made vacation -i
- 2) put a .forward file containing
- \me, "|vacation -a me"
- 3) prepared a file .vacation.msg with at least a From and Subject: line.
- I get following messages
-
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:05:23 MET
- Subject: Returned mail: Bad usage
- To: ebel
- Status: RO
-
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- 500 "|/usr/bin/vacation -averonic"... Bad usage
-
- ----- Unsent message follows -----
- or
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:08:38 MET
- Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
- To: ebel
- Status: RO
-
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- 550 /users/extern/veronic/.forward: line 1: '| /usr/bin/vacation -averonic'...
- User unknown
-
- I have also tried it on suns, with analogous hypothesis with the same results.
- Can somebody help me . Does it work when you work with several machines
- Thanks
-
-
- --
- Norbert Ebel
-