Victor Duchovni:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:27:44AM -0800, Nandini Mocherla wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I was installing Postfix postfix-2.5.5 on Solaris. At the time of
> > compiling the Source with make I have defined the parameters (for changing
> > the default values of the following from /etc/ to /opt etc.)
> > -DDEF_COMMAND_DIR=
> > -DDEF_SAMPLE_DIR=
> > -DDEF_SENDMAIL_PATH=
> > -DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=
> > -DDEF_DAEMON_DIR=
> > -DDEF_DATA_DIR=
> > -DDEF_QUEUE_DIR
> > -DDEF_MAILQ_PATH=
> > -DDEF_MANPAGE_DIR=
> > -DDEF_NEWALIAS_PATH=
> >
> > When I run make install, it asked a load of questions again about where I
> > want the stuff located. One of the things it asks about is config files,
> > which defaults to /etc/postfix and I change it to /opt/postfix/etc
>
> Sorry, you must compile-in the desired location of the default
> configuration directory. This cannot be set via main.cf, catch-22.
Once the correct default is compiled in, you can override it via
other means, and install Postfix in other locations, but overriding
config_directory via main.cf is not an option.
Wietse
