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Petidomo Mailing List Manager
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Version 2.2 beta 2
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Greetings citizen,
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I know how tedious reading "manuals" is when you're eager to install
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the new software, so I'll keep it as short as possible. Before
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Petidomo can be installed, either from a binary or a source
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distribution, you -must- do the following:
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1) Create a user of the name "petidomo".
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The petidomo-user is needed by the software, but will usually not
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be used to log into the system, so you should set the password
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entry to "*" and the login shell to "/usr/bin/true" or
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"/sbin/nologin" -- depending on what your system uses.
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2) Create a group of the name "petidomo".
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This group should contain all users of your system who are allowed
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to administrate Petidomo or for other reasons need access to the
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installation. The "petidomo" user should be a member of this
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group, too, even though this is not strictly necessary.
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3) Create the home directory of the "petidomo" user.
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The home directory is the place where the package will live. A
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good place is "/usr/local/petidomo", but you can place it
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wherever it suits your installation.
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Once the user, the group and the directory exist, you can use the
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following mechanisms to do the actual installation.
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If you're upgrading from Petidomo 2.0 and have some mailing lists
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installed already, you can safely use these mechanisms, too. In no
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event will the installation procedure overwrite your config files or
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change anything except for the actual binaries.
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The installation itself works as follows:
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Binary distribution:
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Become 'root' and start the "install.sh" script, which can be
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found in the same directory as this file. install.sh will populate
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the home directory of the petidomo user and insert the required
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mail aliases into /etc/aliases. Then it will install the CGI
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config manager and that's it: Petidomo is ready to run.
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Source distribution:
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Obviously you need to compile the sources first of all. In order
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to compile Petidomo, you will need the following tools:
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- a C compiler, preferably gcc or egcs
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- a version of make(1) that understands the "include" and
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".PHONY" statement (use GNU make if your native make doesn't)
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- flex, the GNU version of lex
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- bison, the GNU version of yacc, at least version 1.25. Older
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version -might- work, but I had problems with them, because
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they're lacking the YYERROR_VERBOSE mechanism.
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If you have all these tools, you can compile Petidomo with the
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following commands:
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$ make
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$ make install (must be done as root)
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In case you experience any problems you're not able to fix, you're
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welcome to file a problem report with the "send-pr" utility, included
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in the distribution. You might also want to check out the
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petidomo-users mailing list, to which you can subscribe by sending a
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SUBSCRIBE command to the following address:
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petidomo-users-request@petidomo.com
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Okay, I hope you'll find the Petidomo Mailing List Manager useful, and
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may the force be with you!
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Peter Simons <simons@petidomo.com>
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