Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:33:20 +0200 From: Ian Freislich <ianf@za.uu.net> To: Gerald Herrera <gherrera@cnetco.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: popd-1.03_1 Message-ID: <75481.1006414400@za.uu.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:39:51 MST." <3BFC1117.2070307@cnetco.com> References: <3BFC1117.2070307@cnetco.com>
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Gerald Herrera wrote: > I downloaded this package and installed it on my 4.4-Release package. > Is there some other installation procedures that I'm missing, like > setting up the line in inetd.conf, or modifiying Sendmail to work with > this package, or runnning a config of some sort, or adding something to > the rc.conf file? I'm new to FreeBSD, and I was trying to setup an > E-Mail server. Sendmail works just fine for sending out, or send from > local user to local user. Thank you for your time. How the daemon is run is really left to the desire of the systems administrator, which is why no startup script or anything else is supplied. You have two options: 1. run it from inetd, 2. run it as a stand-alone daemon. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. If you're a large ISP with hundreds of thousands of mail users on your machine, you'll probably want to run it as a stand-alone daemon to prevent the exec() overhead of running it from inetd. However, if you're scared the daemon will die and you won't notice, then run it from inetd and take a slight performance hit. There's an example line in /etc/inetd.conf which you should edit to suit your particular installation. I think popd installs into /usr/local/libexec/popd. However, there really is no substitute for reading the relevant manual pages and understanding how things work. In this instance, I would suggest that you start with inetd.conf(5) and popd(8). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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