Re: [LI] BSD Style vacation program?

[Syed Khader Vali <sidcarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:38:54PM +0530, Bhyrava Prasad wrote:
> I am looking for a port of the vacation program.
> The one off freshmeat dumped core. There is also
> some PERL script, but I would like to have one like the
> Sun OS/Solaris version.
Hello there,
I dunno if this is the right thing but on my debian system, vacation comes
installed as part of the bsdmaintuils. Here is what is has to say:

[sidcarter@XXXXXXXXX] dpkg -s bsdmainutils                                    ~
Package: bsdmainutils
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 327
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Version: 4.4.0.1
Replaces: bsdutils (<< 3.0-0)
Depends: libc6, libncurses4, bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8)
Suggests: wenglish | wordlist
Conffiles:
/etc/cron.daily/calendar b0483b6fbe110ded045214a91f4b05b1
/usr/lib/calendar/default 9f980c64925d10cf023348efe12e2d46
Description: More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
This package contains lots of small programs many people expect to find
when they use a BSD-style Unix system.
.
Included are: banner, cal, calendar, col, colcrt, colrm, column, from,
hexdump, look, lorder, tsort, ul, vacation, whois, write.
                                  ^^^^^^^^


Or Did I not understand your question. 
Hope this helps. ;-)

Regards
	Khader

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