Subject: Vacation Msg (YIKES!!)

From: Linda Emerson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:59:51 -0800 (PST)

I decided to try the "vacation" program to see if it's installed here and 
guess what?  Here's the message I received:

UX: vacation: INFO: vacation notification installed
UX: vacation: INFO: logging will go to '/home/lindae/.maillog'
UX: vacation: INFO: '/usr/share/lib/mail/std_vac_msg' will be used for the
		     connect message

OK, gurus, how do I get out of this one?  And how can I change the
standard vacation message when I am ready to use the program?

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    Linda Emerson     \~~~~~/      Caffe' Sumatra
  [email-masked]    C\___/   Twain Harte, California

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From: Dean Pentcheff <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Sep 1996 00:05:11 -0400

> standard vacation message when I am ready to use the program?

See the manual page for "vacation" for details (that is, run the
command "man vacation".  If you don't get a documentation page for
"vacation", then scream loudly at your ISP that they must install the
Unix manual pages.  If they refuse, change ISP).

There is now probably a file ".vacation.msg" in your home directory
that you can edit as you see fit.

The actual invocation of vacation is controlled by the presence and
contents of a file ".forward" in your home directory containing a
single line, something like:

\lindae, "|/usr/ucb/vacation lindae"

If you delete or move that file (say, to "..forward"), then the
"vaction" function will cease.

-Dean
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