Marko Vodopivec - 2003-08-14

How to make vacation work on RH9 with sendmail-8.12.8-5.90. I have ~/user/.forward file with \user, "|/usr/bin/vacation user" and file .vacation.msg and .vacation.db . I also have createt simolic link in /etc/smrsh/vacation but I still get error message:

The original message was received at Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:49:45 +0200 from [81.24.97.10]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/bin/vacation user"
(reason: 1)
(expanded from: <user@mydomain.com>) />
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1

I also try to remove the link and copy vacation program directly to /etc/smrsh then I get error message:

The original message was received at Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:19:16 +0200 from [81.24.97.10]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/etc/smrsh/vacation user"
(reason: Service unavailable)
(expanded from: <user@mydomain.com>) />
----- Transcript of session follows -----
smrsh: "vacation" not available for sendmail programs
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

Please HELP !