I am using Linux Redhat 9.0 and running Usermin 1.051.

I am also running vacation auto-reply (V. 0.940)


You log into your own usermin account.
and click vacation enable you have to go modify the .forward file everytime like this below for vacation to work.

Before you modify the .forward file it looks like this:

\brian
"| brian

then I go in and add this to it:

\brian
"| vacation brian"

why do i keep having to add vacation to the .forward file.

The disable vaction buttin works though.

But after you click the enable button.

Please help for I am a new Linux user trying not to go back to Microsoft
as my email server.

Thanks
Brian

not sure why usermin isn't working right. maybe it doesn't have the correct permissions to the file.

please do a
ls -l .forward
and post the output.

Why I don't know for I have to add the vacation link in the .forward file manually

[root@enki root]# ls –I .forward

anaconda-ks.cfg gtk install.log.syslog retroclient tmpmnt
Desktop hello mail signal typescript
Evolution install.log Mail sys xzip181.tar.Z
[root@enki root]#



Thanks,
B

ls -l
that is a lower case L for the -l
basically i want to know the permissions on the .forward file.

also webmin has a forum at: http://webmin.us/phpBB2/
the current usermin version is 1.1 try that as well.

Okay here is what I come up with as far as permissions on the .forward file:

[root@enki root]# ls -l .forward

-rw------- l root root 33 Oct 13 15:59 .forward
[root@enki root]#

Thanks,
B

ok
unless you want to have vacation setup for root those file permissions are not right. usermin runs as the user. so to edit that file you need to change the owner to the user it is for and change the group to users or whatever group that user is in

when i use usermin it doesn't edit the .forward file, it deletes it, then recreates it when i enable.

The last post for the permissions was for "Root"
because I was logged on as "Root"

I believe I need to go to a terminal window again and login
as brian and do a ls -l .forward.

This would give permissions to the .forward file in brian


thanks
B

or just navigate to /home/brian as root and type the ls -l

have you tried updating usermin yet?

Thanks this is what I got after I navigated to /home/brian as root and type the ls -l

root@enki root]# cd /home/brian
[root@enki brian]# ls -l
total 4

-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 275 Nov 9 07:27 vacation.msg
[root@enki brian]#

Looks like brian has permissions in his own directory.

it just when I click enable vacation and then go to
edit mail forwarding it says this
forward to:
normal user mailbox enabled? yes
Forward to: Program brian enabled? yes

this doesn't work until I edit .forward file manually and
add vacation after the pipe.

then I go back to the same page and it says
Forward to: Program vacation brian enabled? yes
and it works.

I don't know

Thanks,
B

well i'm at a loss
i would try the feedback option in webmin and see if they can help you