On 2002.02.18 21:21 M.B. wrote: > > I'd skip the RPM business and compile from first principles, but > that's > > just me. > > With my little experience, RPM I would think is better for me. I did > install Mysql and PHP 4.1.1 from source but I found a great tutorial > for it > > If people were not getting this to work with RPM, I am sure it would > be > noted somewhere The fact that the Courier writers do not provide an RPM should be taken as a caution. When I first started using courier, I tried making RPMs, but found that the assumtions made in the process were not valid for my machine, and the testing suite was not available to diagnose installation problems. So I took out the RPMs, compiled the source and got courier running rather quickly.
> > I think the more important question is whether you've been through > > Sam's test suite. Have you read the INSTALL page yet? > > I did read the INSTALL page and the one in the TAR. The problem I > find is > it is not clear on what you HAVE to do if you are using RPM's. There > are > quite a few things the INSTALL file says to do but its more geared to > compiling from source, I find very few instruction when using RPM. > Half the stuff is in a different place using RPM The testing suite must be done to verify proper installation. Compiling from source makes the perftest much more feasible. > I dont know, it might be me, but there should be an RPM.INSTALL file > detailing what needs to be done going the RPM route. Honeslty, I > dont know what I HAVE MUST do after installing the RPM's Given the complexity of installation of server-level software, my opinion is that making RPMs an option is doing a disservice to the system administrator (IMHO only). Having said that, by carefully following the directions in INSTALL, you'll find that compilation of courier is much easier than it looks. > Then it says if you are using webadmin the rest of the file can be > configured with it. There is no documentation on webadmin, if someone > needed to use it they obviously dont have all the terminolgy down. > > If I could configure it without webadmin, I would not need to use > webadmin, > and since I do there should be explanation on what all those settings > are > for. If you study the documentation for the configuration files, you'll understand the settings in webadmin. At thqat point, webadmin is an easier way to alter those settings. > Whats Sam's test suite. I did not see anything called Sam's test > suite. From Post-Installation Setup onward in the INSTALL doc. http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html#postinst > Courier seems like a great piece of software. I chose it because it > is an > full mail server in one package. I figures it would be best to have > one > system running POP, SMTP, WEBMAIL, a WEBADMIN was a bonus good feature You're right on that point. :) > Is there a site with more detailed instruction using RPM's To my knowledge, no. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
