All the configuration files required for each software described in this book has been provided by us as a gzipped file, floppy.tgz
for your convenience. This can be downloaded from this web address: http://www.openna.com/books/floppy.tgz
You can unpack this to any location on your local machine, say for example /tmp
, assuming you have done this your directory structure will be /tmp/floppy
. Within this floppy directory each configuration file has its own directory
for respective software. For example Sendmail configuration file are organised like this:
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 684 Jun 8 13:00 Linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 3648 Jun 8 13:00 access
-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 547 Jun 8 13:00 aliases
drwxr-xr-x 2 harrypotter harrypotter 4096 Jun 8 13:00 init.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 137 Jun 8 13:00 local-host-names
-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 109 Jun 8 13:00 null.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 685 Jun 8 13:00 sendmail.mc
drwxr-xr-x 2 harrypotter harrypotter 4096 Jun 8 13:00 sysconfig/
You can either cut and paste this directly if you are faithfully following our instructions from the begining or manually edit these to modify to your needs. This facility is there though as a convenience but please don't forget ultimately it will be your responsibility to check, verify, etc. before you use them whether modified or as it is.
To run a Central Mail Hub Server, the following files are required and must be created or copied to the appropriate directories on your server.
Copy the sendmail file in the /etc/sysconfig
directory.
Copy the sendmail script file in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/
directory.
Copy the local-host-names file in the /etc/mail
directory.
Copy the access file in the /etc/mail
directory.
Copy the aliases file in the /etc/mail
directory.
Create the virtusertable
, domaintable
, mailertable
and .db
files in /etc/mail
directory.
To run a Local or Neighbor Client, Server, the following files are required and must be created or copied to the appropriate directories on your server.
Copy the sendmail file in the /etc/sysconfig
directory.
Copy the sendmail script file in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/
directory.
Copy the local-host-names file in the /etc/mail
directory.
You can obtain the configuration files listed below on our floppy.tgz
archive. Copy the following files from the decompressed floppy.tgz
archive to the appropriate places or copy and paste them directly from this book to the concerned file.