simvacation is a heavily modified version of the BSD vacation tool.
Traces of the original code (which was designed to be manually added
to a user's .forward file and store vacation state in a per-user
Berkeley DB) can still be seen, but close integration with our LDAP
directory and mail routing system has significantly changed its
internal architecture.
simvacation is developed and used mainly on Linux systems, but tries to avoid gratuitous incompatibility with other Unix-like systems.
In order to build simvacation, you will need the following:
- A C compiler. Compilation has been tested with GCC and clang, and other modern compilers should also work.
- make
- pkg-config or a compatible replacement.
- libucl
Optional dependencies:
Tests can be run with make check. simvacation's test suite requires
pytest >= 3.9 and Python >= 3.7; you may also
want to install cmocka and pass --with-cmocka
to the configure script to enable additional unit tests.
Some tests require spawning an ephemeral redis instance. If
redis-server is not found these tests will be skipped.
Some tests require an LDAP server with a specific set of
data. If the LDAP_SERVER environment variable
is not set these tests will be skipped. If you haven't set up LDAP
correctly, these tests will fail.
./configure --with-cmocka CFLAGS='-g -O0 --coverage'
make check
gcov *.c