On 20 August 2010 08:36, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It is just the way I have been doing it for years - adding the >>> sa-exim files to the new source directories and then building >>> it. Our Exim config file has evolved over years so the thought >>> of learning a new system did not appeal to me. > >> FWIW, you can on any debian machine run the following for almost any >> package: >> apt-get build-dep [packages] > >> This gets you the appropriate dependencies for any package. Use it in >> conjunction with the source and --build options, and you'll have a nice >> pretty deb sitting there, if you're really worried about that. > > If you read my first post you will see that I had to do the " apt-get > build-dep exim4" to get all the dependencies installed before exim 4.72 would > build on Ubuntu server 10.04. > > > My query is really that the instructions in the "section 25.7 Turning Exim > on" of Philip Hazel's 2nd edition Official Guide to Release 4 of Exim which > worked fine on our old Solaris 9 mail server do not apply to Ubuntu server > 10.04 and thoughts on how these instructions can be updated.
Those instructions are necessarily generic, and can't take into account all possible packgers' ways of going about things - it has to be assumed that an admin knows a bit about how things like init scripts work on the system they're running. Peter -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
