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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Intermittent .forward problem
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.225512.19988@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 22:55:12 GMT
References: <1990Aug23.135914@uwm.edu> <1990Aug29.073958.200@dde.dk> <1990Aug29.170409@uwm.edu>
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In article <1990Aug29.170409@uwm.edu> wls@uwm.edu (Bill Stapleton) writes:
>I set up a new test on one of our machines running 5.64, and it doesn't
>seem
>to matter which form you use - If there's two that are the same, one of
>them
>is suppressed.  I tried:
>
>	"|vacation"		"| vacation"
>	|"vacation"		| "vacation"
>	|vacation		| vacation
>
>They all work, but they're all subject to duplicate supression.  Any
>other
>suggestions?

     If the command can take arguments, use:

      "|vacation user"

 where 'user' is you.

     If the command cannot take arguments, first make a symbolic link:

      ln -s /usr/ucb/vacation /home/user

      then in .forward, use |/home/user

 By the way, my 'man' pages say you should use an argment for vacation.

 It is an unwise practice to ever use "|vacation" in the .forward file.
Always use full paths.  Otherwise you are depending on the path that
happened to be in effect with sendmail was started.  When the daemon is
started  in /etc/rc sometimes only a very minimal path is in effect.
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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940