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Date:      09 Aug 2002 10:46:06 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vacation bug?
Message-ID:  <443ctoum35.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252624DD1B5@NETIVITY-FS>
References:  <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252624DD1B5@NETIVITY-FS>

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Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl> writes:

> Has anyone here experienced this problem?
> 
> I setup vacation for a specific users, but it's doesn't reply.
> Instead it wipes out the users .forward and .vacation.msg
> 
> Other users I tested seem to work... I think the problem is cause by the
> dash ('-') in the username.
> I think vacation sees this as an option to vacation and badly enough the
> first character after it is 'i' (which initialises .vacation.db).
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this behaviour and/or better, a sollution?!

I'm about to go on vacation myself, so I don't have time to experiment
with this, but I looked at the source and nothing jumped out at me.  
You may have success if you try quoting the username...

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