Sendmail+Vacation+RHEL ES

[Craig Daters]

Recently migrated one of our RH9 servers to RH Enterprise Linux ES and I 
am trying to set up vacation for a couple of employees for the first 
time. I am using the standard RH RPM's for Sendmail.

The User sets up .vacation.msg with:

    From: jwlazz at westpress.com (John Lazzaretti)
    Subject: I will be on vacation
    Precedence: bulk

    Vacation Reminder -
    I am on vacation from August 30th - September 7th
    If you have something urgent during this time, please contact
    cathy at westpress.com, or kristy at westpress.com. Or you can reach
    Cathy or Kristy at: (520)624-4939, or via fax at: (520)624-2715.
    Our out-of-state toll free number is: 1(888)637-0337

    Thank you,

    --John

And the .forward with:

    \jwlazz, "|/usr/bin/vacation jwlazz"

When someone sends a message, these errors are recorded:

Aug  3 11:35:49 elrond vacation[17683]: vacation: .vacation: Unknown 
database type

Aug  3 11:35:49 elrond sendmail[17682]: i73IZjqV017668: 
to="|/usr/sbin/vacation jwlazz", ctladdr=<jwlazz at westpress.com> 
(500/500), delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=120367, 
dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error

Aug  3 11:35:49 elrond sendmail[17682]: i73IZjqV017668: to=\\jwlazz, 
ctladdr=<jwlazz at westpress.com> (519/506), delay=00:00:04, 
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=120367, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

Aug  3 11:35:49 elrond sendmail[17682]: i73IZjqV017668: i73IZneC017682: 
DSN: Data format error

Aug  3 11:35:49 elrond sendmail[17682]: i73IZneC017682: 
to=<jwlazz at westpress.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=local, pri=31886, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

I have tried to initialize vacation by the 'vacation -i' command, but I 
do not see the other '.vacation' files that this should create according 
to the man page. What do I need to do to get this working?

--Craig D.