Ken, Thank you for responding. Your suggestion to use your items is beyond my understanding at this point. I reloaded RH7.2, and got telnet going. I went through the install of qpopper again. If you can follow along, it appears that all went well until I got to the point when I entered "make install" and this is what I got:
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0644 root ./man/popper8 /usr/local/man/man8 /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/usr//local/man/man8/': no such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 I was logged a root, went to the /home/donc/projects/qpopper4.0.3/ and ran all the installation stuff. Any, ideas? Thank You. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:11 AM Subject: Re: Qpopper + RH7.2 > On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 08:25, Don Clouse wrote: > > > First, I'm completely new linux and qpopper. My objective is to make a > > personal pop3 server run. > > I've got one running on my home server and another at the office, both > RH7.2. > > > My first question is: What directory should the downloaded files be place > > in for decompression and loading? > > Try my RPM's at http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/SRPMS/. Rebuild with "rpm > --rebuild qpopper-*.src.rpm" and install with "rpm -Uvh > qpopper-*.i386.rpm". The source RPM includes the stock tarball plus some > additional useful files for RH7.2. Note that you'll need the rpm-build > package installed to rebuild SRPM's from source. > > > On my first attempt, I made a directory /root/temp and I see that after > > installing Qpop I have a directory /root/temp/Qpopper with all the files in > > it. Will this location have an adverse affect? > > Avoid being root unless you have to. When you rebuild packages from > source code, be a regular unprivileged user, and only su to root to > install the binaries. Otherwise a typo in a Makefile has more potential > for scrambling your system. > > For instance, you could unpack and build the tarball in > /home/don/projects/qpopper. > > > Also in the manual on page 9 there is an "IMPORTANT" reference "In the mail > > spool directory, some systems have a symbolic links from /usr/mail to > > /usr/spool/mail. Make sure you check this before install Qpopper." I don't > > have these directories, and I not quite sure what the manual is telling me. > > Don't worry about it. RH puts mail in mbox format in /var/spool/mail. > The configure script should find it there. > >
