I have been looking all over the cobalt directories for the source of the text that shows up on the user administration email part of their control panel. Namely, I need to change the phrase "Vacation Message" to "Response Message". Anyone know which file contains this phrase?

Originally posted by JoeM
Anyone know which file contains this phrase?

Try 'grep "Vacation Message" *'.

Thanks. I tried that but it just pulled up a list of directories, some of them empty.

Vacation messages for each user (even if not used) is stored in /var/vacation/user.msg

So it must be set when you add a user. User adding is handled by /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteUserAdd/siteUserAdd.cgi
User & Vacation stuff is also in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Cobalt/User.pm and Vacation.pm

We find vacations are set by the perl function vacation_set_message and the default message is retrieved by MSG_get_ui("defaultVacationReply")

MSG_get_ui is defined in Util.pm, but the real function is Locale::gettext::dgettext("ui", $msgkey); So we edit look at Locale.pm to find out the default message directory is /etc/cobalt/messages

Looking there we'll find the default vacation message in:
/etc/cobalt/messages/en_US/special-sauce.po
/etc/cobalt/messages/en_US/ui.po

Voila!

Sidenote: editing cobalt files void your waranty and can be extremly dangerous. Also cobalt updates may not work anymore as expected. Backup any files before editing.

Uhm, sorry, I was to stupid :blush: to read your message exactly. You simple want to change the text "Vacation Message" in the user interface.... !?

Solution One
you simply exchange [str.vacationReply] in /usr/admserv/templates/email.tmpl with your message

Solution Two (more sophisticated)
edit /etc/cobalt/messages/en_US/ui.po
and find these two lines.
msgid "vacationReply"
msgstr "Vacation Message"
exchange the msgstring


Brevious sidenotes apply.
I'm not sure if .po files are postgres files!?