RE: socketmapd.0.31.pl file system location

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Muchnick [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: maandag 19 december 2005 1:00
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [srs-discuss] socketmapd.0.31.pl file system location
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm brand new to this list and
> to SRS. I'm trying to install the latest stable socketmap method but the
> tarball has no detail files whatsoever and unfortunately sendmailsrs.htm
> isn't helping either. I can figure out what to do with the two m4 files,
> but can only guess at where socketmapd.0.31.pl is supposed to be placed
> and what invokes it.
>
> Also, the perlsrs.m4 invokes two scripts: /etc/scripts/envfrom2srs.pl
> and srs2envtol.pl. Mail::SRS has been installed (from tarball) but these
> scripts don't exist in the called path (and Slackware 10.2 or 10.1,
> which run all my servers, don't have a /etc/scripts directory by default
> anyway).
>
> Can anyone shed some light on these issues?

Yes, I can; as I wrote the srs socketmapd. :)

For starters, you can run socketmapd.0.31.pl from any location, as
communication takes place via a UNIX domain socket (so the place to put
socketmapd.0.31.pl is immaterial).

You do not need perlsrs.m4, envfrom2srs.pl, or srs2envtol.pl. These are
only for the (obsoleted) program map support. The only thing you, next to
socketmapd.0.31.pl itself, of course, is socketmap.m4 (to be placed as
'hack' in you .mc file, so its settings become part of your sendmail.cf.)

Then you can just start socketmapd.0.31.pl (from any location), and
presto, you are doing SRS. :)

- Mark 
 
        System Administrator Asarian-host.org
 
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