Jefrey, Thanks for the experience. Unfortunately, the hostname/domain I use on this server is not used anywhere else on the system. The client of mine has been going crazy because they are so animate about using Vacation Reply. I fear I will be losing them soon. I just don't know what's wrong.
-Rashid On 9/2/10 4:33 AM, "Jeffrey Pellin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sorry to jump in here if this has been going for some time but I also > had a problem with vacation messages which is now sorted and I wonder if it > was the same thing. > > Basically I had a BO server host/domain name which was a sub domain of one > of the sites on the server. I know now that this was a dumb move but at the > time it was late and I'd run out of coffee and pizza ... > > So my server was sub.mydomain.com and my site was www.mydomain.com. > Vacation messages just would not go. We switched the urls so that server > was www.mydomain.com and the site was sub.mydomain.com and everything > worked. > > We switched back and forth a couple of times (1 message a week makes > testing really tricky) and it was clear that this was indeed the issue. I > have absolutely no idea why, but sometimes in this world you just have to > accept a gift without knowing where it comes from ;) > > Regards > > Jeffrey > > On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:16:23 -0400, Abdul Rashid Abdullah > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know some time has passed but unfortunately due to a lot of traveling I >> didn't want to raise this issue again unless I knew I could respond >> quickly. >> >> At this point, it appears that my efforts to fix the issue has only >> resulted >> in the fact that no reply is given what so ever. I am aware that only > one >> reply will be given per week. I do not see the .db file being created: >> >> [r...@baraka ronald]# ls -lasth >> total 224K >> 4.0K drwxrws--x 6 ronald site43 4.0K Sep 1 08:11 . >> 156K -rw------- 1 ronald site43 149K Sep 1 08:11 mbox >> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43 132 Sep 1 08:10 .forward >> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43 28 Sep 1 08:10 .vacation_msg >> 4.0K drwx--S--- 3 ronald site43 4.0K Jun 28 15:39 mail >> 4.0K drwxr-sr-x 3 root site43 4.0K Jun 27 00:37 .. >> 4.0K drwxrwsr-x 2 ronald site43 4.0K Jun 27 00:37 web >> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43 24 Dec 5 2006 .bash_logout >> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43 191 Dec 5 2006 .bash_profile >> 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43 124 Dec 5 2006 .bashrc >> 20K -rw------- 1 ronald site43 17K May 20 2006 .pinerc >> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 ronald site43 0 Apr 25 2006 .addressbook >> 4.0K -rw------- 1 ronald site43 2.3K Apr 25 2006 .addressbook.lu >> 4.0K drwxr-s--x 2 ronald site43 4.0K Apr 21 2006 Network Trash Folder >> 4.0K drwx--S--- 2 ronald site43 4.0K Apr 21 2006 Private >> >> I am looking for some desperate assistance on this one. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> >> On 7/22/10 9:32 PM, "Abdul Rashid Abdullah" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >>> Thanks Michael for the explanation. I appreciate it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Rashid >>> >>> >>> On 7/22/10 6:44 PM, "Michael Stauber" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Abdul, >>>> >>>>> I have been looking for an answer to this issue and found a suggestion >>>>> to >>>>> the run the following command: >>>>> >>>>> strings /usr/sbin/smrsh | grep ^/ >>>>> >>>>> When I did that I found /etc/smrsh. >>>> >>>> Yes. Sendmail will only "pipe" mails to executeables if the executable >>>> in >>>> question has been authorized for usage. To do that, you simply place a >>>> symbolic link to the executeable in /etc/smrsh/ >>>> >>>>> My shell interface shows the vacation.pl and the target in flashing >>>>> red. >>>>> There is no vacation.pl in that location >>>> >>>> On a "stock" BlueOnyx you should have a symbolic link in /etc/smrsh > that >>>> points to /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl >>>> >>>> Additionally you should have another symbolic link in there for >>>> Majordomo, >>>> that points to ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper >>>> >>>> So it ought to look like this: >>>> >>>> [r...@cbq /]# ls -la /etc/smrsh/ >>>> total 20 >>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:49 . >>>> drwxr-xr-x 87 root root 12288 Jul 23 00:40 .. >>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 3 01:56 vacation.pl -> >>>> /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl >>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 3 21:40 wrapper -> >>>> ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper >>>> >>>>> I am also noting that ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper is in red and >>>>> when >>>>> I go to that directory, the wrapper file is in red. >>>> >>>> That's fine. It is in red not because the link is broken, but because >>>> the >>>> target file is a SUID binary, which are shown in red by default. >>>> >>>> If you still don't get vacation messages, then keep in mind that you >>>> only >>>> receive ONE vacation message per sender address per week. A small >>>> database >>>> will be kept in the users home directory that stores which email sender >>>> already received a vacation message and how long ago that was. >>>> >>>> If in doubt, go to the home directory of that user and delete the *.db >>>> file >>>> that lies directly in the home directory itself. 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