[ILUG] vacation problem

[Kenn Humborg]

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 07:38:33PM +0000, Raymond Kelly wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> I've been trying to get a vacation working here but have run into
> problems ...
> I've followed the instructions in the manpage but a test run yields
> these errors
> the bat book unfortanetly is of no help either & there doesn't seem to
> be any other documentation around either....
> 
> any help would be appreciated & I'm sure it's pretty simple 
> it's a Suse 5.2 system btw
> 
> ta
> 	Ray ...
> 
> [begin snip]
> 
> The original message was received at Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:30:24 +0100
> from ray at localhost
> 
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/bin/vacation test_acc"
>     (expanded from: test_acc)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> sh: vacation not available for sendmail programs
> 554 "|/usr/bin/vacation test_acc"... Service unavailable
> 


You might need to drop a copy of vacation into /etc/smrsh or
/var/adm/smrsh.  In fact, a symlink from /etc/smrsh/vacation to
/usr/bin/vacation might do the trick.

The smrsh feature of sendmail is a 'Sendmail restricted shell' that
limits the programs that sendmail will run via aliases or .forward
files.

Looks like SuSE enable it by default.  The smrsh directory is 
located in /var/adm/smrsh in the original sendmail sources, but
Redhat patch it to /etc/smrsh.  SuSE might or might not do the same.

Later,
Kenn