Re: mail server config

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:03:34AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> like compiling it from the source info
> 
> $ su
> # pw useradd exim -u 90 -d /usr/exim
> # exit
> 
> does it mean that I need to create a user call exim in
> the root directory of linux before I installed exim on
> the system or what?

Please read my previous mail... yes, you do need to create a user called
exim. The syntax to do so is slightly different under Linux than FreeBSD,
and I gave what I thought was the right command.

> secondly, if I need to download exim from the net, in
> what directory do I need to download it to before I
> now do the tar to untar the file?

If you follow the handout, what it suggests is that you create a directory
/usr/exim, chown it to your normal userid, and download it there.

But actually it doesn't really matter, you could just download it into your
home directory, untar it and compile it there. When you do "make install" it
will copy the binaries and config file into /usr/exim.

Brian.

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