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@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +/* Copyright 1993,1994 by Paul Vixie + * All rights reserved + * + * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or + * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't + * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this + * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No + * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this + * software; use at your own risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to + * anyone resulting from the use of this software rests entirely with the + * user. + * + * Send bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, flames, etc., and + * I'll try to keep a version up to date. I can be reached as follows: + * Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> uunet!decwrl!vixie!paul + */ + +$Id: INSTALL,v 2.5 1994/01/15 20:43:43 vixie Exp $ + +Read the comments at the top of the Makefile, then edit the area marked +'configurable stuff'. + +Edit config.h. The stuff I expect you to change is down a bit from the +top of the file, but it's clearly marked. Also look at pathnames.h. + +You don't have to create the /var/cron or /var/cron/tabs directories, since +both the daemon and the `crontab' program will do this the first time they +run if they don't exist. You do need to have a /var, though -- just "mkdir +/var" if you don't have one, or you can "mkdir /usr/var; ln -s /usr/var /var" +if you expect your /var to have a lot of stuff in it. + +You will also need /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/bin directories unless you +change the Makefile. These will have to be created by hand, but if you are +a long-time Usenet user you probably have them already. /usr/local/man is +where I keep my man pages, but I have the source for `man' and you probably +do not. Therefore you may have to put the man pages into /usr/man/manl, +which will be hard since there will be name collisions. (Note that the man +command was originally written by Bill Joy before he left Berkeley, and it +contains no AT&T code, so it is in UUNET's archive of freely-distributable +BSD code.) + +LINUX note: /usr/include/paths.h on some linux systems shows _PATH_SENDMAIL + to be /usr/bin/sendmail even though sendmail is installed in /usr/lib. + you should check this out. + +say: + make all + +su and say: + make install + +Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have +a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it. + +Edit your /usr/lib/crontab file into little pieces -- see the CONVERSION file +for help on this. + +Use the `crontab' command to install all the little pieces you just created. +Some examples (see below before trying any of these!) + + crontab -u uucp -r /usr/lib/uucp/crontab.src + crontab -u news -r /usr/lib/news/crontab.src + crontab -u root -r /usr/adm/crontab.src + +Notes on above examples: (1) the .src files are copied at the time the +command is issued; changing the source files later will have no effect until +they are reinstalled with another `crontab -r' command. (2) The crontab +command will affect the crontab of the person using the command unless `-u +USER' is given; `-u' only works for root. When using most `su' commands +under most BSD's, `crontab' will still think of you as yourself even though +you may think of yourself as root -- so use `-u' liberally. (3) the `-r' +option stands for `replace'; check the man page for crontab(1) for other +possibilities. + +Kill your existing cron daemon -- do `ps aux' and look for /etc/cron. + +Edit your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, looking for the line that starts up +/etc/cron. Comment it out and add a line to start the new cron daemon +-- usually /usr/local/etc/cron, unless you changed it in the Makefile. + +Start up this cron daemon yourself as root. Just type /usr/local/etc/cron +(or whatever); no '&' is needed since the daemon forks itself and the +process you executed returns immediately. + +ATT notes: for those people unfortunate enough to be stuck on a AT&T UNIX, +you will need the public-domain "libndir", found in the B News source and in +any comp.sources.unix archive. You will also need to hack the code some. |