Changeset b40beacc

Timestamp:

07/25/2004 03:09:08 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

20f1da7

Parents:

c82e999

Message:

Added instructions to install unformatted man pages and added a 'Command explanations' section to Sendmail

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@2496 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• server/mail/sendmail.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -19 +19 @@
 <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>July 24th, 2004 [randy]: Added instructions to install
+unformatted man pages and added a 'Command explanations' section to 
+Sendmail.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>July 24th, 2004 [randy]: Added pkgconfig as an optional
 dependency to libpng, Freetype2 and Fontconfig; clarified "Command 

server/mail/sendmail.xml

@@ -81 +81 @@
 sh Build install-cf &&
 cd ../../ &&
-sh Build install</command></userinput></screen>
+sh Build install &amp;&amp;
+for manpage in sendmail editmap mailstats makemap praliases smrsh 
+do
+install -o root -g root -m444 $manpage/$manpage.8   /usr/share/man/man8
+done &amp;&amp;
+install -o root -g root -m444 sendmail/aliases.5    /usr/share/man/man5 &amp;&amp;
+install -o root -g root -m444 sendmail/mailq.1      /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;
+install -o root -g root -m444 sendmail/newaliases.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;
+install -o root -g root -m444 vacation/vacation.1   /usr/share/man/man1</command></userinput></screen>
 
 <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> See the source tree 
@@ -96 +104 @@
 install -m 644 op.ps op.txt op.pdf /usr/share/doc/sendmail/&sendmail-version; &amp;&amp;
 cd ../../</command></userinput></screen>
+
+<para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> remove <filename>op.pdf</filename> from the
+<command>make</command> and <command>install</command> commands if you don't
+have <application>Ghostscript</application> installed.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Command explanations</title>
+
+<para><command>cat &gt; devtools/Site/site.config.m4 &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>: 
+This creates a configuration file changing some of the default settings.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput><command>sh Build
+sh Build sendmail.cf
+sh Build install-cf
+sh Build install</command></userinput></screen>
+
+<para><application>Sendmail</application> uses an <application>m4</application> 
+based build script to create the various <filename>Makefile</filename>'s. These 
+commands build and install the package.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput><command>for manpage in...;do...;done:
+install ...
+install ...</command></userinput></screen>
+
+<para> The man pages are installed already formatted and <command>man</command> 
+displays them somewhat garbled. These commands replace the formatted pages with
+pages <command>man</command> can display properly.</para>
 
 </sect2>