From 17aa4b1417f17ea490b8ffe306426e258219dd60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ask=20Bj=C3=B8rn=20Hansen?= Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:46:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add a bit more detail to the installation instructions git-svn-id: https://svn.perl.org/qpsmtpd/trunk@122 958fd67b-6ff1-0310-b445-bb7760255be9 --- README | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 89e1cb3..c402637 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ Make a new user and a directory where you'll install qpsmtpd. I usually use "smtpd" for the user and /home/smtpd/qpsmtpd/ for the directory. -Put the files there. If you install from CVS you can just do +Put the files there. If you install from CVS you can just do run the +following command in the /home/smtpd/ directory. + cvs C<-d> :pserver:anonymous@cvs.perl.org:/cvs/public co qpsmtpd -in the /home/smtpd/ dir. chmod o+t ~smtpd/qpsmtpd/ (or whatever directory you installed qpsmtpd in) to make supervise start the log process. @@ -78,6 +79,14 @@ qmail-smtpd if you are replacing it with qpsmtpd. If you don't use supervise, then you need to run the ./run script in some other way. +The smtpd user needs write access to ~smtpd/qpsmtpd/tmp/ but should +not need to write anywhere else. This directory can be configured +with the "spool_dir" configuration. + +As per version 0.25 the distributed ./run script runs tcpserver with +the -R flag to disable identd lookups. Remove the -R flag if that's +not what you want. + =head2 Configuration