INSTALL revision 182352
1 2 Installing sendmail 3 4**Note**: Starting with sendmail 8.12, sendmail is no longer set-user-ID 5root by default. As a result of this, you need to install two .cf files. 6See steps 4 and 6 in this document. We also strongly recommend reading 7sendmail/SECURITY for more installation information. 8 91. Read all the README files noted in the INTRODUCTION section of the README 10 file in this top-level directory. 11 122. Create any necessary site configuration build files, as noted in 13 devtools/Site/README. 14 153. In the sendmail/ directory, run "sh ./Build" (see sendmail/README for 16 details). 17 184. Change to the cf/cf/ directory (that's not a typo): Copy whichever .mc 19 file best matches your environment to sendmail.mc. Next, tailor it 20 as explained in cf/README. Then run 21 "sh ./Build sendmail.cf". 22 235. Back up your current /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and the sendmail binary (whose 24 location varies from operating system to operating system, but is usually 25 in /usr/sbin or /usr/lib). 26 276. Install sendmail.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and submit.cf as 28 /etc/mail/submit.cf. This can be done in the cf/cf by using 29 "sh ./Build install-cf". 30 31 Please read sendmail/SECURITY before continuing; you have to create a 32 new user smmsp and a new group smmsp for the default installation. 33 Then install the sendmail binary built in step 3 by cd-ing back to 34 sendmail/ and running "sh ./Build install". 35 367. For each of the associated sendmail utilities (makemap, mailstats, 37 etc.), read the README in the utility's directory if it exists. When 38 you are ready to install it, back up your installed version and type 39 "sh ./Build install". 40 418. If you are upgrading from an older version of sendmail and are using any 42 database maps, be sure to rebuild them with the new version of makemap, 43 in case you are now using a different (and thereby incompatible) version 44 of Berkeley DB. 45 46$Revision: 8.16 $, Last updated $Date: 2007/10/03 21:00:28 $ 47