Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Autoreply seems broke
Summary: arepdaemon seems to stay present
Message-ID: <668@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 14:19:27 GMT
References: <663@wa3wbu.UUCP> <7230001@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
Lines: 26

In article <7230001@hpdtl.HP.COM>, peterm@hpdtl.HP.COM (Peter Maxwell) writes:
> I have never been able to get this to work.  My arepdaemon simply starts and
> stops again.  Have you made sure this is running?

      Yes, I have arepdaemon running. It never seems to "awaken" though
   and act on anything. And because of it, I never get a reply from the
   vacationing user. I did discover that Elm 2.1 apparently doesn't
   let you specify a reply-file. If you type "autoreply filename" it
   tells you it can't open the filename even if it exsists. Looking at
   the source shows it wants a file: /etc/autoreply.data. Creating this
   file solve the complaint but there is still no response from a 
   vacationing user. I never had any luck getting it to work with 1.7B
   but it did allow the use of an alternate filename.
> 
> The Berkeley "vacation" program does the same thing and works well.  Why not
> use that?
> 

      I'm using SVR2.  (Microport)



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