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#1
Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Distribution: debian jessie baby
Posts: 85
Rep:
Problem installing sendmail
Hi, I am having a problem installing sendmail. Can anyone help?
Quote:
/sources/sendmail-8.15.1/vacationinstall: cannot create regular file /usr/man/man1/vacation.1: No such file or directory
Thanks,
Zeshan
Last edited by zeshanuk; 04-07-2015 at 11:17 PM .
Reason: highlight error
#2
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Earth bound to Helios
Distribution: Custom
Posts: 2,524
See this BLFS
Sendmail page .
It is using sed to change man pages install location.
#3
Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Distribution: debian jessie baby
Posts: 85
Original Poster
Rep:
hi veerain, thats the instructions im using already.
#4
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Earth bound to Helios
Distribution: Custom
Posts: 2,524
Quote:
install: cannot create regular file /usr/man/man1/vacation.1: No such file or directory
Well the proper way is to correct makefiles to set path for man pages install path.
Do you have /usr/man directory?
To solve this problem for old programs; used to make a symlink from /usr/man to /usr/share/man.
Code:
ln -s /usr/share/man /usr/man
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#5
Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Distribution: debian jessie baby
Posts: 85
Original Poster
Rep:
this is the devtools/OS/Linux file part showing that its modified the path for MANROOT:
Quote:
# $Id: Linux,v 8.31 2009-01-22 02:15:42 guenther Exp $define(`confMANROOT', `/usr/share/man/man')
does have /usr/share in it........im puzzled.
#6
Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Distribution: debian jessie baby
Posts: 85
Original Poster
Rep:
for info............im still trying to work it out:
Quote:
root:/sources/sendmail-8.15.1# grep -r /usr/man/man
#7
Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Distribution: debian jessie baby
Posts: 85
Original Poster
Rep:
thanks I only just saw your message veerain the symbolic link worked
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