[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Following the instructures given on Life with qmail, I am trying to
>install qmail using the source codes. So far I a have downloaded qmail
>and the two add-ons (daemontools and ucspi-tcp), and followed the steps
>up to building (Section 2.5.5 in Life with qmail).
>
>In the qmail-1.03 subdirectory, I typed make setup check
>
>After a series of compling, I get the following response:
>
> fatal: unable to find user alias
> make: ***[auto_iods/c] Error 111 ,
>
>and end up back at the root prompt.
What does this show:
grep qmail /etc/passwd
>Then, following the next directions,
When following a set of instructions, if one of the steps fails,
*don't* continue on to the next step and expect anything sane to
happen.
>I have checked the user account tab in linuxconf treemenu and there are
>users and aliases.
That's great, but are the users qmail requires there? You should have
created them in 2.5.4.
> My user account is Caroline and my e-mail alias is
>MAILER-DAEMON. The user account is there.
Mixed case usernames are a bad idea in general, and don't work with
qmail.
>1. Why did the make setup check command not find user alias file? How
>do I create one?
It's looking for a user named "alias", not an alias file. You create
it and the other qmail users by following the directions in section
2.5.4 of LWQ.
>2. Is the make+***[auto_iods/c}Error 111 warning a different problem.
>If so, how do I correct this?
No.
>3. Why doesn't the ./config or ./config-fast command work? Will it work
>once the user alias problem is fixed?
Most likely.
-Dave
