Joe Millay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am installing qmail on a box with RedHat 6.1 as the OS. I am following
>LQW's instructions. I have downloaded the source for qmail, ucspi, and
>daemontools. I am to the section where I create users and groups, but I
>am confused (VERY confused).
>
>I cannot find the "INSTALL.ids" file.
If you followed LWQ, at this point, INSTALL.ids would be in
/usr/local/src/qmail/qmail-1.03/INSTALL.ids.
>Nor do I understand the lines of the script:
>
>pw useradd alias -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /nonexistent
>pw useradd qmaild -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /nonexistent
Those are an *example* for FreeBSD. You're not using FreeBSD.
>Am I to substitute the username somewhere in the lines above?
No. You're to extract the Linux "useradd" lines from INSTALL.ids and
execute them as-is.
>The instructions say to edit /etc/group if INSTALL.ids is not
>installed.
No, they say to edit /etc/group and /etc/passwd *if* your system isn't
covered in INSTALL.ids.
>OK. I find that, but I do not understand:
>
>qmaild:*:7791:2108:: /var/qmail/:bin/true
>
>Where is the user name located in this line? Am I missing something in
>the instructions?
What you're missing is that the instructions need to be followed. At
the point where you were unable to locate INSTALL.ids, you should have
stopped, thought, and asked for help. Instead, you plowed on. BTW, the
username in the above entry is "qmaild".
The whole point of this section of the instructions is to set up
certain users and groups that qmail itself uses--not to add end users,
as you seem to believe.
>Thanks for any help, I really, really appreciate it. By the way--I am
>installing this on a test machine, just like the instructions suggest.
>:)
Good. Very good. :-)
-Dave
