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Last change on this file since a11e412 was a11e412, checked in by Larry Lawrence <larry@…>, 21 years ago

update to postfix-2.0.9

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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of <application>postfix</application></title>
3
4<para>Before you compile the program, you need to create users and groups that
5will be expected to be in place when the install script executes. Add the
6users and groups with the following commands:</para>
7
8<screen><userinput><command>groupadd postfix &amp;&amp;
9groupadd postdrop &amp;&amp;
10groupadd -g 65534 nogroup &amp;&amp;
11useradd -c postfix -d /dev/null -g postfix -s /bin/false postfix &amp;&amp;
12useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 65534 nobody &amp;&amp;
13chown postfix:postfix /var/mail</command></userinput></screen>
14
15<para>Install <application>postfix</application> by running the following commands:</para>
16
17<screen><userinput><command>make &amp;&amp;
18make install</command></userinput></screen>
19
20<para>The install script will enter an interactive stage with questions in the
21form of '*_directory:[default]input'. Defaults can be accepted in all but
22three cases. The following shows the three cases and the modified response.</para>
23
24<screen><prompt>daemon_directory:[/usr/libexec/postfix]</prompt><userinput>/usr/sbin</userinput>
25<prompt>manpage_directory:[/usr/local/man]</prompt><userinput>/usr/share/man</userinput>
26<prompt>sample_directory:[/etc/postfix]</prompt><userinput>/usr/share/doc/postfix</userinput></screen>
27
28<para>The final installation step is to install the program's documentation with this command:</para>
29
30<screen><userinput><command>cp -rf html/* /usr/share/doc/postfix</command></userinput></screen>
31
32</sect2>
33
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