On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:28:43AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>
> 1 - The default installation directory is /var/qmail, do most
> installations actually use this? If you do use this do you add
> /var/qmail/bin to the qmail administrator's (usually root) path
> or what? After install unless you do something manually none of
> the executables are accessible and nor are the man pages.
>
In bash, the default shell for a linux system,
export PATH=${PATH}:/var/qmail/bin
export MANPATH=${MANPATH}:/var/qmail/man
> 2 - Related to the above (and I know there's a checkpasswd list)
> checkpasswd has / as its default installation root.
Really? my conf-home says /usr/local. I don't remember if I
changed it or not...
> Two things - firstly 'maildirmake' won't work unless you've
> previously added to your path as I've asked about above.
I agree. You generally cannot run a program that isn't in your
path, or referenced explicitly.
> Secondly
> what's this bit about "creating a maildir in the new-user template
> directory"? A bit more help would be welcome here.
>
man adduser
/skel
> As a general comment, since qmail is often suggested as the easiest to
> install mail system for Linux/Unix it will often be chosen by
> relatively inexperienced newcomers to Linux. Thus the rather basic
> things like paths and so on need to be spelt out a bit better I think.
If I understand you correctly, you missed:
1) that qmail binaries aren't installed in /usr/local/bin, which is
generally already in a user's PATH.
Did you know about PATH?
2) that qmail's man pages aren't installed in /usr/man or /usr/local/man,
which have a very strong potential of being in the default MANPATH.
Did you know about MANPATH?
3) what was meant by a new-user template directory.
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