so you ran "make setup check" and nothing was in /var/qmail ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:47 PM
To: Charles Cazabon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install
The compile runs, but when it's all over with there is nothing
in the /var/qmail directory to work with.
-Steve
> Steve Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've checked everything except the phase of the moon and my
white blood cell
> > count. I've probably memorized the docs by now. qmail will
simply NOT
> > compile correctly on the latest Mandrake.
>
> You said earlier that the problem was "nothing ends up
in /var/qmail/".
> Now you say it doesn't compile. Which is true? If it doesn't
compile, you
> should expect anything to end up in /var/qmail/, because
that's the "setup"
> (install) step, which comes after compiling is complete.
>
> If you want further help, please run the following script.
Make sure
> qmail-1.03.tar.gz is in /usr/local/src/ first. Adjust the
path to bash as
> necessary. This will do a vanilla compile & install of
unpatched qmail 1.03.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> (
> mv /var/qmail /var/qmail.old
> rm -rf /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03
> cd /usr/local/src
> gunzip -c qmail-1.03.tar.gz | tar -xf - qmail-1.03.tar.gz
> cd qmail-1.03
> make setup check
> ) >/tmp/qmail-setup-log.txt 2>&1
>
>
> Then post /tmp/qmail-setup-log.txt on the web somewhere, and
send a URL to
> this list. We need to see all of the output of the build
process, I think, to
> find what your problem is.
>
> Charles
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