I'm on fedrora core 3.   Points 1 and 2 were the same for me.  With postfix
on FC3 (you can choose either seendmail or postfix) - there is no procmail
involved. tmda 1.0.3

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:51:05PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> tmda newbie doing an install on Fedora Core 2 ... observations ...
> 
> 1. rpmbuild is not happy with tarball name:
> 
> Instructions tell how to build an rpm from the tarball.
> The source tarball was named tmda.tgz by default. I tried:
>   rpmbuild -tb tmda.tgz
> 
> But it failed because the rpm spec was looking for tmda-1.0.3.tgz
> 
> in order to get rpmbuild to work I had to:
>   mv tmda.tgz tmda-1.0.3.tgz
>   rpmbuild -tb tmda-1.0.3.tgz
> 
> 2. permissions on doc directories
> 
> After the rpm install the permissions on the /usr/share/doc directories
> were not good. The directories do not have x permissions, so
> non-root-users cannot look at them.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mth]$ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/tmda-1.0.3/
> drw-r--r--  4 root root 4096 Mar 15 21:11 /usr/share/doc/tmda-1.0.3/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mth]$ su -
> Password:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# chmod a+x /usr/share/doc/tmda-1.0.3/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /usr/share/doc/tmda-1.0.3/
> total 96
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 12749 May  1  2004 ChangeLog
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  2539 May  3  2003 CODENAMES
> drw-r--r--  2 root root  4096 Mar 15 21:11 contrib
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 18009 Feb 27  2002 COPYING
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  5066 Sep  1  2003 CRYPTO
> drw-r--r--  3 root root  4096 Mar 15 21:11 htdocs
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   333 Aug 19  2003 INSTALL
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1670 Sep 22  2003 README
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  3997 Dec 19  2003 THANKS
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 25196 Nov 26  2003 UPGRADE
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# chmod a+x /usr/share/doc/tmda-1.0.3/contrib/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# chmod a+x /usr/share/doc/tmda-1.0.3/htdocs/
> 
> 
> 3. postfix + procmail
> 
> I am running postfix, but I was using procmail to do spamassassin
> filtering. The installation instructions talk about using procmail under
> sendmail, but it wasn't clear to me how much of this applied to postfix.
> To simplify things I will turn off procmail (& spamassassin).
> 
> More later ...
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
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