Vaction Debian Sendmail
01/10/2006
I just set up vacation on my box, here's a few pointers to help fellow linux admins
Vacation (Debian) Install
First install vacation. (I assume you have a mailer daemon, perhaps sendmail).
apt-get install vacation
Other distributions, use rpm, or whatever...
Configuration
If you are running smrsh (secure mail shell) don't forget to symlink:
ln -s /usr/bin/vacation /etc/mail/smrsh/vacation
If you don't do the above, you may get "vacation stat=Service unavailable" in your mail log
Then run "vacation" and answer the questions.
Stopping Vacation
delete the ~/.forward file
