From 5924813a9fe9b7766494b9b8baab4cb1e8e0c667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:44:40 +0000
Subject: Add a messy example of how to get debug-mode error messages written
 to a file in the user's home directory.

Requested by:	hoek
---
 usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1 | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'usr.bin/vacation')

diff --git a/usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1 b/usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1
index f6a6760..e90eef6 100644
--- a/usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1
+++ b/usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	From: @(#)vacation.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/16/93
-.\"	$Id: vacation.1,v 1.6 1997/02/22 19:57:38 peter Exp $
+.\"	$Id: vacation.1,v 1.7 1999/06/17 14:44:41 sheldonh Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 16, 1993
 .Dt VACATION 1
@@ -169,6 +169,16 @@ are logged in the system log file, using
 unless debugging mode is enabled with the
 .Fl d
 option, in which case they are written to the standard error output.
+.Pp
+Building on the example provided above, you might choose to have errors
+redirected to a file while you are testing vacation's operation with
+the following in your 
+.Pa .forward
+file:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\eeric, "|/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vacation -d -a allman eric' 2>/home/eric/.vacation.log"
+.Ed
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 The
 .Nm
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