Subject: Setting 'vacation' mode

From: Dion Vansevenant <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 21:21:00 -0400 (EDT)

Our users here do not have access to the shell. Does anyone know how they 
could activate the 'vacation' setting in UNIX to indicate to people that 
they are on vacation?

Our in-house mailing system does it and it would be nice if they could 
set it at the UNIX level as well.

For the record we are using DG/UX 5.4.2 and Pine 3.86. TIA

Dion

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From: [email-masked] (Steven King [Really!])
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 16:22:56 GMT

>For the record we are using DG/UX 5.4.2 and Pine 3.86. TIA

I'm afraid I don't understand your question.  Your users don't have 
access to the shell, but you want to start 'vacation' at the Unix level?
What are you calling "the Unix level" if it's not a shell prompt?

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From: Dion Vansevenant <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 21:18:37 -0400 (EDT)

> What are you calling "the Unix level" if it's not a shell prompt?

Sorry, for us "the Unix level" is just that, Unix. Our system runs 
PI/Open and Blacksmith, an operating system emulator and delvelopment 
system, respectively. The users login and are immediately sent to the 
PI/Open level. This is kind of like having DOS and Windows on your hard 
drive and having you system boot to Windows immediately.

At any rate, our users do not see the Unix prompts, ever. The closest 
they get is Pine. Running Pine from PI/Open is akin to running a DOS 
session from Windows. Actually, you've just gotten me thinking....Hmm. 
Give me a day or two.

Dion