The "vacation" autoresponder suite came with rhel3 and 4, but it's omitted from 5. My el5 box uses sendmail-8.13.8-8.el5, which is what yum gives you, and I don't want to switch to another mailhandler. I grabbed the binary for vacation 1.2.7 from an rhel4 box and it runs with no apparent error on el5, initializing .vacation.db apparently just fine.
However, the autoresponse itself fails. /var/log/maillog shows: Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad smrsh: uid 500: attempt to use "vacation froya" (stat failed) Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: SYSERR(root): putbody: write error: Broken pipe Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR: dev=0/17, ino=1232, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0 [14 more pretty similar to the last one] Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: to="|vacation froya", ctladdr=<fr...@amistad.boat.washington.edu> (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=62174, dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: to=\\froya, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=62174, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: p0UHDkf6007908: DSN: Service unavailable Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: to="|vacation froya", ctladdr=<fr...@amistad.boat.washington.edu> (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=62174, dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: to=\\froya, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=62174, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Jan 30 09:13:46 amistad sendmail[7908]: p0UHDkf6007907: p0UHDkf6007908: DSN: Service unavailable I don't know what most of that is telling me. What's "stat failed"? What's DSN? I also compiled and installed vacation 1.2.7 from its tarball, and the behavior is unchanged. Can any kind of autoresponder be made to work with sendmail out-of-the-box on rhel5? Being, of course, out of town, I'll be away from this list for a few days. Billy
