Installing Sendmail....

How to Install on Solaris

Pre Installation...

1. Your machine is connected to the internet, or you have access to the internet.
2. You have Sun's c compiler installed.
3. Otherwise your Solaris installation is near to vanilla.
4. You know how to use the internet & vi.
5. You have /usr/ccs/bin in your PATH.
6. You have /opt/SUNspro/bin in your PATH.
7. You're using h2n.pl to translate a hosts file to db's, all located in /var/named
8. You have a perl 5 binary in your PATH.

Getting The Necessary Components...
1. FTP the latest source from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/
2. FTP the Gzip Freeware package from http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5_nof.html#gzip
3. FTP the GNU Patch package from http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5_nof.html#patch

Installing the Components...
1. Install the Gzip package.
   1. Translate the package so sun can understand it:
      • pkgtrans ./gzip-1.2.4 /tmp
   2. Install the package...
      • pkgadd -d /tmp
   3. Make the package useful...
      • ln -s /opt/FSFgzip/bin/gzip /usr/bin/gzip
2. Install the Patch package.
   • Uncompress the patch package...
     • gzip -d patch-2.1.gz
     Translate the package so sun can understand it:
     • pkgtrans ./patch-2.1 /tmp
   • Install the package.
     • pkgadd -d /tmp
   • Backup the existing patch binary.
     • mv /usr/bin/patch /usr/bin/patch.old
   • Make the package useful...
     • ln -s /opt/FSFpatch/bin/patch /usr/bin/patch

Extracting the source.
1. Copy the source to the source directory.
   • cp sendmail.8.8.6.tar.gz /usr/src
2. Uncompress the source.
   • gzip -d sendmail.8.8.6.tar.gz
3. Un-Tar the source.
   • tar -xvf sendmail.8.8.6.tar

Patching the files to make it compile for solaris.
1. Download this Patch
2. Change into the src directory.
   • cd /usr/src/
3. Patch the source using the diff-bind file.
   • patch -R < sm-bind
   • If it asks questions about "Assume -R", choose [y].
   • If it asks "Patch which file", then you're in the wrong directory.

Compiling the software.
1. Change into the sendmail source directory
   • cd /usr/src/sendmail-8.8.6/src
2. Make the binaries.
   • ./makesendmail
3. Change into the directory where the new binaries are.
   • cd /usr/src/sendmail-8.8.6/src/obj.SunOS.5.5.1.sun4
4. Make a backup directory, just in case...
   • mkdir /var/sendmail-backup
5. Backup the main sendmail files
   • cp /usr/lib/sendmail /var/sendmail-backup
   • cp /etc/sendmail.cf /var/sendmail-backup
6. Install the binaries into their correct places.
   • make install
7. Change to the configuration directory
   • cd /usr/src/sendmail-8.8.6/cf/cf
8. Make the configuration file.
   • ./m4 ../m4/cf.m4 generic-solaris2.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

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Lastly - Reboot the machine
• Either init 6 or reboot.