arepdaemon(8)                       CLIX                       arepdaemon(8)



  NAME

    arepdaemon - Checks incoming mail and sends an automatic reply

  SYNOPSIS

    arepdaemon

  DESCRIPTION

    The autoreply daemon, arepdaemon, runs in the background and checks the
    /etc/autoreply.data file for users who have used the autoreply command.
    It then checks each user's mailbox for new mail.  If new mail has arrived,
    arepdaemon responds to the mail by sending the file specified by the user
    to the sender.  This file contains a message, such as one that indicates
    the user is on vacation and will respond to the mail at some later date.

  FILES

    /etc/autoreply.data
           Contains the data for every user currently using the autoreply
           system.  The data has the following form:

           username       replyfile      current-mailfile-size


           To avoid a flood of autoreplies, this program will not reply to
           mail that contains the header X-Mailer: fastmail.  In addition,
           each time the program responds to mail, the current-mailfile-size
           entry is updated in /etc/autoreply.data to allow the system to be
           shut down and rebooted without any loss of data or duplicate
           messages.

    /usr/spool/locks/LCK..arep
           A lock semaphore file used by the arepdaemon daemon to ensure that
           no more than one copy of itself is running.  For this reason, it is
           recommended that this daemon be started up each morning from cron,
           since it will either start because it is needed, or simply see that
           the file is there and disappear.

    /etc/autoreply.log
           Log file for reply information.

    /tmp/autoreply.log
           Second choice for log file if first choice fails for any reason.

  NOTES

    Since this particular program is the main daemon answering any number of
    different users, it must be run with the user ID of root.




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  arepdaemon(8)                       CLIX                       arepdaemon(8)



  DIAGNOSTICS

    Couldn't add username - already at max people!
               The system allows a maximum of 100 users at one time to be
               entered in the autoreply system.

    Error number attempting fstat on mailbox
               A system error occurred trying to read the given mailbox.

  EXIT VALUES

    The command exits with a value of 0 if successful, or if the daemon is
    already running.  The command exits with a value of 1 if the daemon is
    unable to open the log file, or if it was killed with a SIGTERM signal.

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands:  autoreply(1), cron(8)




































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