Auto reply vaction error

Question

I set vacation command for one of my user, I manually created .vacation.msg & .forward ,
% vi .forward
\myuser, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a myuser"
after that i run the below command
% sudo -u myuser /usr/bin/vacation -I -t1d
The auto reply is working fine, but after some times .vacation.msg & .forward file is disappear from the user's home directory. The auto reply is not getting
Edited by: kpmayannur on Jul 29, 2012 1:31 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
What i can understand out of what you have stated is you need to create a procedure and schedule it in oracle so it will execute on a particuler time.
If above is your requirement then you have procedure created and as you said its valid as well then why dont you create a job to execute it on a paritculer time like
begin
DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(
JOB_NAME           =>      'JOB_FOR_TEST',
JOB_TYPE           =>      'PLSQL_BLOCK',
JOB_ACTION         =>      'begin YOUR_PROC_NAME; end;',
START_DATE         =>      SYSTIMESTAMP,
END_DATE           =>      NULL,
COMMENTS           =>      'JOB IS CREATED FOR TEST PURPOSE.',
ENABLED            =>      TRUE,
REPEAT_INTERVAL    =>      'freq=daily; byhour=20; byminute=0; bysecond=0;');
end;Add the frequency as your requirement.