Someone just sent me a note and said they were able to install
qmail without a problem on Mandrake 8. I just downloaded the
very latest ISOs and qmail still won't install for me. So,
assuming that I must be doing something totally asinine, here is
exactly, step by step, what I am doing. Hopefully some kind
soul can read this and tell me what I'm doing wrong:
1. Download the qmail compressed file into the /usr/local/src
directory.
2. Decompress the file, creating /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03.
3. Create the /var/qmail directory (yes I'm logged on as root).
4. Modify INSTALL.ids using the first section for Linux. It
does create the users and groups.
5. Do a "make setup check" in the /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03
directory. It runs and is busy compiling.
6. When compile is finished, the /var/qmail directory is still
empty. So, when I try to do the ./config it of course errors
out because it can't find the right directories in /var/qmail.
So............any ideas?
-Steve
