maybe this is a stupidly easy question but I cant find where do I find out
about the format of .alias files, and other documentation on them?
Neil
Neil Grant wrote:
maybe this is a stupidly easy question but I cant find where do I find out
about the format of .alias files, and other documentation on them?
Neil
`man dot-qmail`
or if you didn't put qmail's man files in one of your MANPATH directories:
`man -M /var/qmail/man dot
I've read somewhere about the queue access times, how qmail keeps trying
to send mail in the queue in some exponential way or something. Does
anyone know where that piece of documentation is off hand? Thanks.
I've read somewhere about the queue access times, how qmail keeps trying
to send mail in the queue in some exponential way or something. Does
anyone know where that piece of documentation is off hand? Thanks.
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#retry-schedule
I know this is the wrong place to ask, but the
sqwebmail mailing list is incredibly slow/unpopulated.
Do any of you know where I could find documentation
for that package? I'm trying to do things like set up
multiple virtual domains, change my timeout time, etc.
Thanks,
Alex Le Fevre
Hi there,
I am searching for the Documentation of qmailanalog from last one
day on net. but unable to find it.Please suggest me
where i can get that or if somebody has with him pl. mail me.
Thanks,
Piyush Jain
Yusuf Goolamabbas writes:
So, does the installation of mini-qmail require creating of user-ids for
installation and then one can delete them subsequently
Before running make setup check, you could edit conf-users
and conf-groups so that all the first eight lines of
conf-users have ``root''
Try the docs that come with qmailanalog.
/usr/local/qmailanalog/doc/MATCHUP
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I am searching for the Documentation of qmailanalog from last one
day on net. but unable to find it.Please suggest me
where i can get
According to Dan's page on mini-qmail
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html, installing mini-qmail doesn't require
qmail entries in /etc/passwd or /etc/group. So one should conceptually
just have to unpack qmail-1.03.tar.gz, create /var/qmail and run make
setup check
However, on doing this this is the
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:44:06PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
According to Dan's page on mini-qmail
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html, installing mini-qmail doesn't require
qmail entries in /etc/passwd or /etc/group.
Strictly speaking, that page says that you don't need those entries to
Oops.
By working backwards I mean:
# mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig
# ln -s mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpc /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue
Perhaps:
# mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig
# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpc
Hello,
I agree that the installation and configuration documentation are well
made.
But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like me. Do you
know some Documentation
that explains the whole, that is, how does a mail server work, whre the
concept are explained , other than
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:37:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like me. Do you
know some Documentation
that explains the whole, that is, how does a mail server work, whre the
concept are explained , other than the Qmail books
. Do you
know some Documentation
that explains the whole, that is, how does a mail server work, whre the
concept are explained , other than the Qmail books ?
The Linux Electronic Mail Administrator HOWTO
Guylhem Aznar guylhem at oeil.qc.ca
v3.2, January 2000
http
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:08:03PM +0300, Mbarak M. Ittiso wrote:
my recommendation would be slightly different...download the relevant RFCs.
For SMTP try RFC 822...and you'd get an insight into SMTP.
The RFC's are required to get a proper understanding; you're right.
However, LWQ suggests
* Mbarak M. Ittiso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001107 05:12]:
Joost van Baal wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:37:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like me.
Do you know some Documentation that explains the whole, that is,
how does
"Robin S. Socha" wrote:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/ }:-
For qmail Beginners I did a good All Purpose Installation Mini HOWTO...
http://www.octlabs.de/linux/docu/qmail_howto.shtml
CU,
Michael..
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:19:11 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:08:03PM +0300, Mbarak M. Ittiso wrote:
my recommendation would be slightly different...download the relevant RFCs.
For SMTP try RFC 822...and you'd get an insight into SMTP.
The RFC's are required to get a
Dear Gentleman/Madam,
I am new to qmail and have my system just up and running, but i would
like to have a better control over qmail configuration
files(/var/qmail/control). Since i respectfully request your help in
order to point to a source of information about each qmail configuration
file
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:25:25AM +, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote:
I am new to qmail and have my system just up and running, but i would
like to have a better control over qmail configuration
files(/var/qmail/control). Since i respectfully request your help in
order to
Markus Stumpf wrote:
All you want to know is described in the man page named "qmail-control"
There is a table
control defaultused by
badmailfrom (none) qmail-smtpd
[ ... ]
which means that you can find detailed information about the
Hello ,
does anybody know a real good documentation for qmail running with
vpopmail? I cant get it work. Thank you very much for help.
so long
Hans-Juergen
Since nobody else seems able to do it, maybe you should write a book on
qmail?
Dave
;)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Documentation Specialist Seeking Contract Work
There are two books on QMail. The first was written by Rich Blum in
September and is available through Barnes Noble or Amazon. The second
book has not been released yet, but is expected to be so by Christmas.
I bought the Rich Blum book (Running Qmail) yesterday and find it pretty
well
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Anthony Abby wrote:
There are two books on QMail. The first was written by Rich Blum in
September and is available through Barnes Noble or Amazon. The second
book has not been released yet, but is expected to be so by Christmas.
I bought the Rich Blum book (Running
"Vince" == Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I bought the Rich Blum book (Running Qmail) yesterday and find it
pretty well writtem, but I still have some questions about
configuration because of my Linux inexperience.
Vince Since you just bought it yesterday you may still be able
Documentation Specialists Seeking Contract Work - Technical Writing,
Editing,Graphics, Robohelp, HTML, SGML, etc.
Senior technical writers, senior editors, project leaders and electronic documentation
specialists seek contract work. Clients have included companies such
as Microsoft and Koch
hi,
Instead of going straight from reciept to the delivery queue, it would go
into a processing queue, and hopefully in a manner similar to
qmail-remote/qmail-local rules, a qmail-process queue would then kick off a
various processing filters based on a number of rules. The messages may or
Hay, guys.
I want to make sure I don't email djb without having a real legitimate
question.
Are any of you aware of qmail internal data structure/logic documentation
for the qmail programs?
It sure works nicely, but its a desert in there when you gain your
sustenance from comments so you have
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:08:08PM -0700, Ihnen, David wrote:
I want to make sure I don't email djb without having a real legitimate
question.
Don't email djb with qmail questions *ever*. That's what this list is
for.
Are any of you aware of qmail internal data structure/logic documentation
Instead of going straight from reciept to the delivery queue, it would go
I'm not sure I understand this sentence. Mail goes from the delivery queue
to the recipient, not around the other way...
into a processing queue, and hopefully in a manner similar to
qmail-remote/qmail-local rules, a
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:48:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Instead of going straight from reciept to the delivery queue, it would go
I'm not sure I understand this sentence. Mail goes from the delivery queue
to the recipient, not around the other way...
He's saying "receipt" which
Are any of you aware of qmail internal data structure/logic
documentation for the qmail programs?
There's INTERNALS, and "The big qmail picture" somewhere at
www.nrg4u.com (link is on www.qmail.org).
Hm, I'll be sure to read those.
Instead of going straight fr
Hi,
I would like to know is there any
other documnetation about how to use qmail with MySQL. I know there is a
HOWTO from qmail site, but that document is not detailed enough to get me pass
through all the stuff. Does anybody have any other good documentations on
"How to use qmail with
HI,
I would like to know is there
any other site exists that teach how to use mysql with qmail.
Thank you
mark lO
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:43:12AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote:
HI,
I would like to know is there any other site exists that teach how to use mysql
with qmail.
hey, once a day is enough, ok ? :) if you don't get an answer, it means
probably that nobody know, or that nobody use mysql with
Hi,
check RFC 2554 (SMTP Service Extension for Authentication).
cheers.
eh.
At 16:57 1.9.2000 -0500, Kris Kelley wrote:
Forgive me for an off topic post, but I'm hoping somebody here can point me
in the right direction.
I'm looking for documentation that details how the ESMTP AUTH=LOGIN
Forgive me for an off topic post, but I'm hoping somebody here can point me
in the right direction.
I'm looking for documentation that details how the ESMTP AUTH=LOGIN
mechanism works. There doesn't seem to be an RFC for it, and I haven't had
any luck finding other documentation. The AUTH
the documentation and found a lot of thinks
like the number of paralell proccess and other things.
I really need a great performance in this mailing
list, so I would
like to know some tips and the best mailing list manager to use. I
would
like to know also some statistics of performance in mailing list
I search a good documentation on vpopmail, qmailadmin and
sqwebmail.
I'm currently creating a mail server for an hospital in
France.
Qmail, Maildir and IMAP = are operating.
I would like to manage the server and I'd like to make an
interface for the client -- that's why I'd use theise
tools
can anyone steer me to a good howto? this is what im trying to do: i all
ready have qmail and ezmlm-idx running but i need the cgi interface for
configuration.
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:34:54PM +0200, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 10:18:18PM -0700, Brian Kifiak wrote:
fairly intuitive but I'm unsure of other parts (ie '7f000...' in above
example). Is it documented?
I assume it's an IP address.
127.0.0.1 === 7F.00.00.01
I
On 20:38 3.04.2000, Barbara Koch-Hoffmann could be heard musing
Hi,
it seems that we continously revent the wheel..
1. This patch does already exist (see below).
2. All the SPAM discussion is a ricochet of the old stuff - why doesn't
qmail have a good documentation.
Pls. have
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:38AM +0100, Will Harris wrote:
/172.(?:1[6-9]|2[0-9]|31).[0-9]+.[0-9]+$/
One line, nice and simple.
add "wrong".
1.172.31.111
You should really use \. and ^
Regards, Uwe
At 10:28 4.04.2000, Uwe Ohse wrote:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:38AM +0100, Will Harris wrote:
/172.(?:1[6-9]|2[0-9]|31).[0-9]+.[0-9]+$/
One line, nice and simple.
add "wrong".
1.172.31.111
You should really use \. and ^
Damn! You are so right! The only thing is that for
"Will Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have embedded a Perl engine
into qmail-smtpd which allows you to use Perl's excellent pattern matching
system.
Have you analyzed the impact of this on security and efficiency? E.g.,
does embedding perl carry along the C runtime library, which Dan went
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 03:33:00PM -0500, Chris Hardie wrote:
[snip]
I would be happy to make an attempt at this documentation, as long as
folks agree that it would be useful, and would be willing to provide
feedback on what I come up with.
I'll give feedback :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter
Hi,
it seems that we continously revent the wheel..
1. This patch does already exist (see below).
2. All the SPAM discussion is a ricochet of the old stuff - why doesn't
qmail have a good documentation.
Pls. have a look at my WEB page:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages
Hi
At 06:40 PM 3/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
At 3:06 PM -0500 3/31/00, Dave Sill wrote:
Do the spammers:
1) throw up their hands and admit defeat, or
2) start using valid (but wrong) domains in their envelope return
paths, thereby defeating your rejection and escalating the arms
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:24:43PM -0500, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
Hi,
From: "Peter van Dijk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
advertise the e-mail address associated with that user account in the
MAIL
FROM, nothing prevents you to advertise your "official" email address in
the
reply-to header.
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:55:09AM +0200, Michael Raff wrote:
[snip]
I own the pobox.co.za domain and am having the same problem. Someone is
spamming faking a rubbish source address from the @pobox.co.za domain. The
first line in the headers that gives any smtp info is
Received: from
I guess it's time to close the debate on that issue.
I appreciate the main point here which is: that solution could work, except
that today it is not practical to use "remote" relays that correspond to
your main email domain.
- Original Message -
From: "Peter van Dijk" [EMAIL
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
I guess it's time to close the debate on that issue.
Actually, since I asked the original question, I'd like to clarify what I
think the main point is: "The lack of clear and concise documentation
about anti-spam/security options for the n
At 11:53 PM -0500 3/31/00, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
Hi,
From: "Paul Schinder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 3:06 PM -0500 3/31/00, Dave Sill wrote:
Do the spammers:
1) throw up their hands and admit defeat, or
2) start using valid (but wrong) domains in their envelope return
"Patrick Bihan-Faou" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with spam is that there is no reliable way to split spam from
legitimate mail.
Bingo!
If you try to filter-out spam, you will always end-up filtering out
proper mail as well.
Bingo!
The key is to try to keep track as much as
From: "Len Budney" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The key is to try to keep track as much as possible of what is accepted
and what is rejected.
Why? To satisfy your curiosity? Or do you then track down all senders of
legitimate email, and tell them what happened?
The reason why I feel that logging of
"Patrick Bihan-Faou" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing I am pointing out is that the choice of doing spam
filtering is a personal one, and one has to understand that it will
kill legitimate mail as well.
Okay, sorry for the warm response. If ``personal'' means the same thing
to you
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
[snip]
Well I am certainly not saying that this should be done for all domains. But
for some sensitive ones (yahoo ? hotmail ? aol ?), it would probably be
You could perhaps indeed consider yahoo and/or hotmail since these
Hi,
From: "Peter van Dijk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
advertise the e-mail address associated with that user account in the
MAIL
FROM, nothing prevents you to advertise your "official" email address in
the
reply-to header.
Uhm. You are correct. Nothing prevents you from doing that. But it kinda
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
Hey, don't flame me. I said this is a personal choice. For my part I don't
filter anything out (yet) because spam is not enough of a problem for me at
this time. The only thing I am pointing out is that the choice of doing spam
filtering is a
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Chris Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been observing what seems to be a lack of clear and concise
documentation about anti-spam/security options for the novice and/or
average qmail user.
LWQ doesn't cover anti-spam options in depth because I've personally
never felt the need to implement
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been observing what seems to be a lack of clear and concise
documentation about anti-spam/security options for the novice and/or
average qmail user.
LWQ doesn't cover anti-spam options in depth because I've personally
never felt the need to implement MTA-level spam
Jon Rust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with most of what you said here Dave, but I'd have to say
that rejecting mail with envelope sender domains that don't exist is
a good thing (either an A or CNAME record, or an MX). If for no other
reason, you can't bounce back to them. I don't
Jon Rust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with most of what you said here Dave, but I'd have to say
that rejecting mail with envelope sender domains that don't exist is
a good thing (either an A or CNAME record, or an MX). If for no other
reason, you can't bounce back to them.
You have two
Points (Charles' too) taken. Both good arguments. Dunno know if they
changed my mind, but got my thinking anyway...
jon
At 3:06 PM -0500 3/31/00, Dave Sill wrote:
Jon Rust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with most of what you said here Dave, but I'd have to say
that rejecting mail with
to get some feedback from list on it, but
apparently no one here uses it.
hi
just wanted to mention this patch which was reccomended to me but i haven't seen
mentioned: http://www.flame.org/qmail/
you want poor documentation? this guy's consists of "I won't explain how to apply
these pa
At 3:06 PM -0500 3/31/00, Dave Sill wrote:
Do the spammers:
1) throw up their hands and admit defeat, or
2) start using valid (but wrong) domains in their envelope return
paths, thereby defeating your rejection and escalating the arms
race?
Note that many are already doing
Hi,
From: "Paul Schinder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 3:06 PM -0500 3/31/00, Dave Sill wrote:
Do the spammers:
1) throw up their hands and admit defeat, or
2) start using valid (but wrong) domains in their envelope return
paths, thereby defeating your rejection and escalating the
Jon Rust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with most of what you said here Dave, but I'd have to say
that rejecting mail with envelope sender domains that don't exist is
a good thing (either an A or CNAME record, or an MX). If for no other
reason, you can't bounce back to them. I don't
Patrick Bihan-Faou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 31 March 2000 at 23:53:31 -0500
Maybe one way to deal with this is:
1. verify that the domain of MAIL FROM is correct
2. verify that the address of the server sending the mail
resolves to that domain...
This is probably not the best
Folks,
I've been observing what seems to be a lack of clear and concise
documentation about anti-spam/security options for the novice and/or
average qmail user.
In my particular situation, I've recently moved to the tcpserver/rblsmtpd
way of doing things, and now I'm interested in blocking
uses it.
Please let me know what you find out.
Thanks,
jon
At 4:35 PM -0500 3/30/00, Chris Hardie wrote:
Folks,
I've been observing what seems to be a lack of clear and concise
documentation about anti-spam/security options for the novice and/or
average qmail user.
In my particular situation
I never noticed this before (having relied entirely on Dave Sill's LWQ
for installation), but daemontools 0.61 does not ship with
documentation... Why?!?
--
Allen Versfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
QVANTI CANICVLA ILLE IN FENESTRA
Allen Versfeld writes:
I never noticed this before (having relied entirely on Dave Sill's LWQ
for installation), but daemontools 0.61 does not ship with
documentation... Why?!?
Because Dan doesn't want to be stuck with obsolete documentation, as
has happened with qmail 1.03. For example
Is qmail documentation web down ?
http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs.html ,because I can't access it,
even from last month.
---
AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)
I hope to be converting a large mail server currently using sendmail and
virtmail to qmail w/ vpopmail. Has anyone put together any documentation
on the function of vconvert? By taking a quick scan through the source I
was able to figure out the correct switches to make it convert from an
/etc
First, hi to all!
I have lot of trouble to fix Qmail working on one of our servers, and that's
it
i can't do it again. I was reading FAQ / doc / man / lwq and god know what
else
and there is still problem with few thing's. Aslo, in one documentation is
one way
of installing on other something
u feel LWQ is lacking.
Aslo, in one documentation is one way of installing on other
something else.
Yeah, so what? "There's more than one way to skin a cat."
So i'm mailing this archive and all you good people working on qmail,
to finaly make ONE "clean" document in ONE file
ment, Q and stopping SPAM, Q and Security, and
finally, Q and Performance - monitoring and management.
I would, too. I'd be happy to link to them.
Same with the different install methodologies. I'd love to see a features
checklist form that you press submit and it spews back links to the required
d
Is there a source of good documentation for qmailanalog? As near as I can
tell, it's just trial and error to figure out what type of output each
script will produce.
And, barring that, any suggestions on a useful cron setup to produce daily
reports?
Ben
--
The phrasing, style
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Does anyone have a comprehensive page for qmail address filtering?
Specifically (any of these, I'm not even sure they all exist).
Bad Mail From addresses, Bad Mail To addresses, maildrop system filters,
maildrop user filters, tcpserver access lists, tcp-env
"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:
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Does anyone have a comprehensive page for qmail address filtering?
(snip)
I'm afraid the only way to stop spam is either stop companies
from relaying the stuff, either stop people from reading it.
They'll just write scripts to get
"Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ make
Russ make install
Russ ./install /depot/col/package/bin BIN
Russ ./install /depot/col/package/man MAN
For what is that supposed to work? It doesn't work for ucspi-tcp-0.84.
j.
--
Jay Soffian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28-Mar-99 Jay Soffian wrote:
"Russ" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ make
Russ make install
Russ ./install /depot/col/package/bin BIN
Russ ./install /depot/col/package/man MAN
For what is that supposed to work? It doesn't work for ucspi-tcp-0.84.
#
"Mark" == Mark Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I'm sure djb knows his way is better, so this is all a
waste of breath now, isn't it.
Mark So lemme get this right. Dan B. has written and made freely
Mark available an MTA that many people like. Russell N. has set
Mark
"Scott" == Scott D Yelich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had tcpserver compile just fine even with HP's broken
compiler. It seems as if you're trying to find fault just to
try and prove your point. If you know/knew in advance of your
non-standard compiler setup you'd be
Jay Soffian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, none of djb's packages like the idea of compiling a program to
look in one place and installing it in another. We use depot for all our
package installes, so we compile packages to look in /usr/local, but
install them in /depot/col/package_name.
smtpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
I can't really tell if it's working or not. I tried sending mail to the
test address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I only got one message
back about the message being blocked.
I can't find any documentation (other than the source) on any
configuration for rblsmtpd.
That's all (I'm trying to say).
Whatever it is you are trying to say, take it to private message. I read
the qmail list for qmail oriented messages not nonsense.
Julian
People miss my humor so much I sometimes think I'm not funny.
There might be a clue in there somewhere. :)
tq vm, (burley)
P.S. I'm at least half-kidding, as I often run into the same sort of thing.
"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:
How many people here had to ask or figure this out for
themselves provided that they didn't have "cc" working?
I did. It was a quite fix but it was one which could have been avoided.
That's what autoconf automake are for.
--
"cc" didn't invoke the compiler.
shag
Solaris? QNX? HPUX? AIX?
Thank you Cris, for illustrating one of the prime shortcomings of all
documentation ever printed - it can't force anyone to read, just as I can't
force you to read my message before you typed out a reply.
Should
"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:
This may not be the place to ask... and I'm not sure I'd like
the answers -- but I'll ask anyway:
(1) is it standard (practice) to link cc to gcc? (and who says it is
standard practice?)
and
(2) how many people here have done this?
As far as linking cc to gcc
On 24-Mar-99 Cris Daniluk wrote:
Racer X wrote:
Why not mention *this* in this INSTALL?
How many people here had to ask or figure this out for
themselves provided that they didn't have "cc" working?
Uh, you're kidding, right?
I think the assumption is that you won't be messing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No need to edit the Makefile to set the compiler option. As a feature of
make you can pass the necessary parameters from the command line like
so:- 'make CC=gcc' or whatever compiler is necessary. At no stage is it
absolutely necessary to edit the make file.
Have
clearly and concisely, and so on.
The audience for technical documentation, no matter *how* intellectually
advanced, includes very few people who actually *read* it at their
"advanced" level. The vast majority of readers instead dabble in it,
here and there, while focusing most of their
ing cc with gcc solves things but I must
agree with you, this is NOT the users responsibility to omnisciently know this.
It unquestionably sucks that things are the way they are, but whether you like
it or not, it is how it is. It's stupid. Yup. Can't change that. That's why
documentation is suppo
responsibility to omnisciently know this.
I must've been out of town when the job of installing a mail server has
been delegated to users. In the old days, it were the admins who did these
kinds of things.
You can argue that documentation for things that users run should be dumbed
down. rblsmtpd
On 23-Mar-99 Scott D. Yelich wrote:
I just wish the qmail system would be friendly to non-djb software
and/or have instructions that were laid out with some vision. It's
really nice to see a context diff patch -- but it doesn't do any good if
the file being patched is hard referenced
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