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<sect2>
<title>Installation command explanations</title>
<para><userinput>
groupadd exim
useradd -g exim exim : </userinput>
Create the group and user exim which will run the the exim
daemon.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>
sed -e 's/^BIN_DIR.*$/BIN_DIRECTORY=\/usr\/sbin/' src/EDITME | \
sed -e 's/^CONF.*$/CONFIGURE_FILE=\/etc\/exim.conf/' | \
sed -e 's/^EXIM_USER.*$/EXIM_USER=exim/' | \
sed -e 's/^EXIM_MONITOR/#EXIM_MONITOR/' > Local/Makefile :
</userinput></screen>
Many of exim's configuration options are compiled in. Here, we
specify the minimum set of options, BIN_DIRECTORY, CONFIGURE_FILE and
EXIM_USER. We also defer building the exim monitor program, which
requires X windows support, by commenting out the EXIM_MONITOR line in
the Makefile.</para>
<para><userinput> ln -s /usr/sbin/exim /usr/sbin/sendmail :
</userinput>
Create a link to sendmail for applications which need it. exim will
accept most Sendmail command line options.</para>
</sect2>