On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:44:16PM -0400, Steve Reed wrote:
> Someone just sent me a note and said they were able to install
> qmail without a problem on Mandrake 8. I just downloaded the
> very latest ISOs and qmail still won't install for me. So,
> assuming that I must be doing something totally asinine, here is
> exactly, step by step, what I am doing. Hopefully some kind
> soul can read this and tell me what I'm doing wrong:
>
> 1. Download the qmail compressed file into the /usr/local/src
> directory.
> 2. Decompress the file, creating /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03.
> 3. Create the /var/qmail directory (yes I'm logged on as root).
> 4. Modify INSTALL.ids using the first section for Linux. It
> does create the users and groups.
> 5. Do a "make setup check" in the /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03
> directory. It runs and is busy compiling.
> 6. When compile is finished, the /var/qmail directory is still
> empty. So, when I try to do the ./config it of course errors
> out because it can't find the right directories in /var/qmail.
>
> So............any ideas?
1) Insall the "script" program (if it's not already installed), and type
"script /tmp/qmail.log".
2) Go through your qmail install. When done, type "exit".
3) Post /tmp/qmail.log to a website for further review, since you're
obviously not providing enough information here.
--Adam
