Basically the build.sh script is deprecated.
Use:
%> configure --with-mysql
%> make
%> make install
as build and installation procedure.
You'll still have to setup the database, edit the config file, and
integrate with your mta, of course.
Hamster wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install dbmail 1.2.6 for the first time.
I've run into a few confusing problems though.
Working my way through the INSTALL document, I was able to complete step one
with no problems (creating the mysql database using the mysql -u root -p <
sql/mysql/create_tables.mysql command.
The first problem I ran into was with step two. It asks you to copy the
dmail.conf file to /etc/ and edit it. I did this, and the conf file asks you
to run dbmail-config after you've made changes. The problem is that this
programme doesn't exist. There is no dbmail-config programme.
I then thought that perhaps this particular programme is created later on as
part of the make process, so I proceeded to step three.
There is also a problem with step three, running build.sh. The problem
starts if you ask it to install the binaries and man pages. It achieves this
by first asking you for $bindir and passing this as a parameter to the
install-dbmail.sh script.
The syntax of the call is incorrect. The install-dbmail.sh is simply called
as `install-dbmail.sh $bindir` which results in an error: "./build.sh: line
114: install-dbmail.sh: command not found install script failed. You can
rerun this manually by running install-dbmail.sh".
The reason for this failure is that because of the way install-dbmail is
called, it looks for this script in $PATH, where it won't be found. The
script should be called as `./install-dbmail.sh $bindir`.
There is also a minor problem with the install-dbmail script. You're not
given the choice of setting the man dir. Not all distros keep their man
pages in /usr/local, resulting in an error when this script is run. Perhaps
you could add this small extra bit of code:
echo "Enter location of man pages, or press RETURN to keep the default
/usr/local/man :"
read line
if [ "$line" != "" ]; then
targetmandir=$line
else targetmandir="/usr/local/man"
fi
Now again I encountered the problem with dbmail-config. The
install-dbmail.sh script asks you what user and group you want to run
DBMAIL as. It says "Don't forget to edit these users in the dbmail.conf file
and run dbmail-config".
Problem is there is still no such programme called dbmail-config.
What's going on? Is dbmail-config no longer needed, or is there a genuine
mistake somewhere causing dbmail-config to not be compiled? I notice the
dbmail-config man page is present.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. If these problems are all fixed in
version 2, I apologise. My problem is that I *have* to run ver 1.2.6.
I also tried to search the archives before posting, however it seems the
search feature is broken. For every search term I tried it said "no results
found".
Hamster
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