In no particular order...
1) I wrote a newbie-friendly qmail guide called "Life with
qmail". It's available from http://lwq.w3.to, which is a shortcut for
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html. I strongly recommend reading
it before you continue trying to install qmail.
2) Regardless of whether you prefer RPM installations, there are good
reasons to install qmail from source. These are documented in LWQ:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation-issues
3) You claim to be--and by all appearances *are*--a Linux newbie. Yet
you also seem to be running a web site aimed at telling other newbies
how to run Linux systems (linuxpeople.cc). Is this not the blind
leading the blind? I don't mean to sound elitist, but you really ought
to get a few of the basics (such as the concept of the shell
executable path) down first.
4) You're trying too hard. Stop posting so frantically. Take a few
breaths, dig around your system and the available documentation a
little more, and contemplate the responses to your postings. This list
is fast, but it's not realtime like IRC. If you wait a while for
responses, sometimes better ones than those that arrived first will
appear.
5) You're too thin-skinned. So a couple people found you annoying and
insulted you. So what? Get over it.
6) Why do you hide your identity? Your messages are from
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". You don't sign them with even a first
name. Your web site doesn't give any clues, either. It's no big deal,
but it *is* kind of annoying.
7) If a compile fails because some include file can't be found, it's
useful to see if a file by the same name resides on your system, *but*
it's not generally a good idea to assume that all files with the same
name have the same contents. Therefore, copying/linking found files to
the expected location is *not* the right way to fix the problem.
8) "The" qmail web site is http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html.
www.qmail.org is also a great qmail resource, but it's not run by the
author of qmail. The fact that it links to RPM's doesn't mean the
author of qmail endorses RPM distributions of qmail.
9) Regarding the posting of the output of "ls" in the source
directory... That *was* annoying, and even the newbiest of newbies
should realize that listing the contents of a large, freshly unpacked
tar file is unnecessary. And it wasn't "source code" as you claimed in
a later message, it was a directory listing.
10) A '486 with 8 MB RAM and 500 MB is pretty pathetic. You shouldn't
be surprised if it's a little harder than usual to work with such a
system. I though my 60 MHz Pentium was pitiful, but it's got gobs more
memory and disk (32 MB and 1 GB).
Well, that should do for a start. Please don't be offended: there are
many people on this list who will bend over backwards to help you...if
you're willing to let them.
-Dave
