glfs/server/mail/postfix/postfix-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of <application>postfix</application></title>

<para>Before you compile the program, you need to create users and groups that 
will be expected to be in place when the install script executes.  Add the 
users and groups with the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>groupadd postfix &amp;&amp;
groupadd postdrop &amp;&amp;
groupadd -g 65534 nogroup &amp;&amp;
useradd -c postfix -d /dev/null -g postfix -s /bin/false postfix &amp;&amp;
useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 65534 nobody &amp;&amp;
chown postfix:postfix /var/mail</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Install <application>postfix</application> by running the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>

<para>The install script will enter an interactive stage with questions in the 
form of '*_directory:[default]input'.  Defaults can be accepted in all but 
three cases.  The following shows the three cases and the modified response.</para>

<screen><prompt>daemon_directory:[/usr/libexec/postfix]</prompt><userinput>/usr/sbin</userinput>
<prompt>manpage_directory:[/usr/local/man]</prompt><userinput>/usr/share/man</userinput>
<prompt>sample_directory:[/etc/postfix]</prompt><userinput>/usr/share/doc/postfix</userinput></screen>

<para>The final installation step is to install the program's documentation with this command:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>cp -rf html/* /usr/share/doc/postfix</command></userinput></screen>

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