Chris Green writes:
> 1 - The default installation directory is /var/qmail, do most
> installations actually use this? If you do use this do you add
Yes.
> /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.
After install, I very rarely need to run anything out of bin. I do
reconfigure man to look into /var/qmail/man, but that's it.
> 2 - Related to the above (and I know there's a checkpasswd list)
> checkpasswd has / as its default installation root. It works
> OK there but sets the permissions on / to 0700 which is a bit
> disastrous! It took me quite a while to fathom out what had
> happened.
Never had that happen to me.
> Two things - firstly 'maildirmake' won't work unless you've
> previously added to your path as I've asked about above. Secondly
> what's this bit about "creating a maildir in the new-user template
> directory"? A bit more help would be welcome here.
It's referring to /etc/skel.
RTFM the -m option to useradd.
