I'm looking at compiling sendmail and installing it in a directory of
my choice, say /opt/sendmail.8.13.8 however I'd like the config files
to default to /etc/mail. Any ideas?

The O/S I'm using is Solaris 9.

On May 9, 10:37 pm, Sting <khurra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at compiling sendmail and installing it in a directory of
> my choice, say /opt/sendmail.8.13.8 however I'd like the config files
> to default to /etc/mail. Any ideas?
> The O/S I'm using is Solaris 9.

You can start with looking at sendmail-8.13.8/devtools/OS/SunOS.5.9

Pardon my ignorance but I'm relatively new to sendmail. I'm guessing
that one can configure sendmail to look in /etc/mail for the configs
but how do I install all binaries to a directory of my choice? What
should be passed on to Build install to make this happen?

quoting Sting (9 May 2007 23:31:08 -0700):
> Pardon my ignorance but I'm relatively new to sendmail. I'm guessing
> that one can configure sendmail to look in /etc/mail for the configs
> but how do I install all binaries to a directory of my choice? What
> should be passed on to Build install to make this happen?

What about running "./configure --" and have a look at the options
you can pass to configure? The installation dir normally is set by the
"--prefix=dirofchoice" option

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Sendmail doesnt have a ./configure method of compiling and
installation. Its done by using a script called Build. I found out
that you can install sendmail to a custom dir by issuing 'sh Build -E
DESTDIR=/opt/sendmail.8.13.8' but the configuration files donot
default to /etc/mail instead they appear in /opt/sendmail.8.13.8/etc/
mail. Any ideas how to address this?

* Sting wrote:
> Sendmail doesnt have a ./configure method of compiling and
> installation. Its done by using a script called Build. I found out
> that you can install sendmail to a custom dir by issuing 'sh Build -E
> DESTDIR=/opt/sendmail.8.13.8' but the configuration files donot
> default to /etc/mail instead they appear in /opt/sendmail.8.13.8/etc/
> mail. Any ideas how to address this?
>
This might not work for you, but
consider symlinking /etc/mail to /opt/sendmail.8.13.8/etc

On May 9, 11:31 pm, Sting <khurra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance but I'm relatively new to sendmail.
O dear.
> I'm guessing
> that one can configure sendmail to look in /etc/mail for the configs

Actually you can evoke sendmail - both instances with a -C I do
believe..
Youd have to check to see if that works in the background though.

> but how do I install all binaries to a directory of my choice? What
> should be passed on to Build install to make this happen?

The hints are in the file I specified but they are by no means
complete.
You have to make your own site.config.m4 file with every possible
installed file that sendmail installs in various locations all over
the disk.
I think there are only 2 examples in that file - the rest youll have
to
work out yourself by looking at all the other examples in the same
directory.
You can leave out /etc/mail but then a patch from Sun would over-write
your changes there. Unless you remove sendmail altogether from the
packaging.

Either way its a lot of work, and its rather easy to get wrong.
If you were running Solaris 10 Id say just patch it up and youll have
sendmail.8.13.8 with Sun extensions. This may also be the case with
9...

Sting <khurramtm@gmail.com> writes in comp.mail.sendmail:

> Sendmail doesnt have a ./configure method of compiling and
> installation. Its done by using a script called Build. I found out
> that you can install sendmail to a custom dir by issuing 'sh Build -E
> DESTDIR=/opt/sendmail.8.13.8' but the configuration files donot
> default to /etc/mail instead they appear in /opt/sendmail.8.13.8/etc/
> mail. Any ideas how to address this?

Consider looking files
devtools/README
devtools/Site/README

There is macros which specify directories.

/ Kari Hurtta