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39 .Nd return ``I am not here'' indication
49 returns a message to the sender of a message telling them that you
50 are currently not reading your mail. The intended use is in a
52 file. For example, your
55 .Bd -literal -offset indent
56 \eeric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
58 which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and
59 reply to any messages for
69 in the same manner as those received for the user's
72 Initialize the vacation database files. It should be used
73 before you modify your
77 Set the reply interval to
79 days. The default is one week. An interval of
82 a reply is sent to each message, and an interval of
84 (actually, any non-numeric character) will never send more than
85 one reply. It should be noted that intervals of
88 dangerous, as it allows mailers to get into
93 No message will be sent unless
99 option) is part of either the
111 will be replied to (where these strings are
112 case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a
116 line is included in the mail headers.
117 The people who have sent you messages are maintained as an
121 in your home directory.
126 in your home directory, containing a message to be sent back to each
127 sender. It should be an entire message (including headers). For
128 example, it might contain:
130 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
131 From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
132 Subject: I am on vacation
133 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: The Vacation program
136 I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
137 please contact Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>.
142 reads the first line from the standard input for a
145 line to determine the sender.
151 Fatal errors, such as calling
153 with incorrect arguments, or with non-existent
155 are logged in the system log file, using
158 .Bl -tag -width "vacation.dirxxx" -compact
159 .It Pa ~/.vacation.db
161 .It Pa ~/.vacation.msg