alias and qmaild these are users needed for qmail to run. the
INSTALL.ids should hve been gone to /var/qmail/doc
if you do not find it, i will mail them to you directly. and: the line
"qmaild:*:7791:2108:: /var/qmail/:bin/true" is an /etc/passwd line and
not /etc/group
a.j
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Am 1/25/00, 9:27:53 PM, schrieb Joe Millay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum
Thema Adding Users when Installing (NEWBIE):
> Hello,
> I am installing qmail on a box with RedHat 6.1 as the OS. I am
following
> LQW's instructions. I have downloaded the source for qmail, ucspi, and
> daemontools. I am to the section where I create users and groups, but
I
> am confused (VERY confused).
> I cannot find the "INSTALL.ids" file. Nor do I understand the lines of
> the script:
> pw useradd alias -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /nonexistent
> pw useradd qmaild -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent
> Am I to substitute the username somewhere in the lines above?
> The instructions say to edit /etc/group if INSTALL.ids is not
installed.
> OK. I find that, but I do not understand:
> qmaild:*:7791:2108:: /var/qmail/:bin/true
> Where is the user name located in this line? Am I missing something in
> the instructions?
> Thanks for any help, I really, really appreciate it. By the way--I am
> installing this on a test machine, just like the instructions suggest.
> :)
> Thanks,
> Joe Millay
