From: Terry Jones (tcj25cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 04:07:26 CDT

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| > When in place this gives me the following bounce:
| >
| > <nkendrickmunged.home.local>: Command died with status 1:
| > "/usr/bin/vacation -a nkendrickmunged.com nkendrick"
|
| Have you tried running it as nkendrick from the shell?

Immediately after running the command in the shell, type

echo $?

This will show you the exit status of the vacation program (I assume
you are using an sh variety shell, e.g., bash). If the exit status is
non-zero, you could change your .forward to

"|/usr/bin/vacation -a nkendrickmunged.com nkendrick || exit 0"

Which would make your error go away. But.... vacation shouldn't be
exiting non-zero, unless there is some problem and you should
investigate this further.

If the exit status is zero, then there is very likely something in
your environment that's allowing vacation to work and which is missing
when your .forward is processed. If you can figure out what that is,
you can set the environment variable in the .forward too.

Terry

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