Installation Issues for New Users

[sean]

Happy to get in on this board at the ground floor...

Thought I would start a new installation topic RE things a person new to the toaster might ask prior to install.

I will start us off with one (being that I am new to the Toaster myself...):

What version of FreeBSD is recommended as a starting point?

[matt]

Always, always use the latest FreeBSD stable. At the moment, that would be FreeBSD 4.9. You can always rest assured that when you install a stable release of FreeBSD you'll get a well tested, well documented, ultra-reliable platform on which to build from.

The FreeBSD -current tree (5.x) is the latest and very greatest stuff, including the newest bugs and other undocumented features. Leave it to the hackers (like me) to get all the bugs found and worked out of it.

If you are new to FreeBSD, stick with -stable for all purposes until you are more familiar with it. Once you are comfortable with the OS and have found a handful of reasons to start using FreeBSD 5, then go ahead and upgrade.

Matt "been running FreeBSD on servers for more years than I can remember"

[ravenlock]

Now, suppose I'm stubborn and stupid, and wish to disregard your kind advice, and use 5.x anyway  (actually I don't have a choice)

Would it be sensible to gather up the phases of installation where things can go horribly horribly wrong?

At what point do the scripts create the qmail directory tree? I get a metric crapload of warnings and errors of nonexistent files and directories in /var/qmail prior to the phase where qmail is actually installed.

(Perhaps I can contribute an example of "people who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Mail::Toaster" )

-Lauri-

[Randy Ricker]

I have just completed a fresh install of toaster v3.32 on FreeBSD 5.2-release and will say that it all went very smooth. Matt's new script rocks! All of the 5.2 related issues (That I am aware of) have been corrected.

Building on 5.1 or less should manually cvsup the ports colection before attempting the install.

I also re-run toaster -s pre a second time since the apps load so fast that it tough to catch errors. This also gives me a list of which program versions are installed.

-RR

[brew]

i got this error at the line of mine.

./install
install: fatal: unable to write .../bin/qmail-lspawn: text busy
*** Error code 111

Stop in /usr/local/src/mail/qmail-1.03.
SysCmd: make setup
SysCmd: result: 256

/usr/local/sbin/toaster_setup.pl script execution complete.

i has killed all the qmail-lspawn but it keep reborning.
any ideas?

[IceBerg]

I have been using qmail on FreeBSD4.7 for a good while now and I am moving to a new faster machine.  I used an old version of the toaster and it worked GREAT!!  Now I have FreeBSD 5.2 installed and ran the new toaster.  Seemed to goo off without a snagg but I think I missed something.

Currently the machine jsut has a single IP (192.168.1.13).  I wanted to check that everything was qorking.  Pointing the browser at the internal IP gets me the Mail Center.  Ok good, the help files didnt work, easy fix I just copied the /support/ directory from the toaster install directory to the web directory.  phpMyAdmin worked exceleant after editing the config file for it and making the php.ini file. RRDUtil seems to come up fine.    However; squirrelmail,  sqwebmail, qmailadmin, isoqlog, and qmail scanner statistics do not work.

looking in the httpd.conf for apache2 an alias is set for squirrelmail, and the cgi script alias is set to the cgi-bin withc is symlinked to cgi-bin-dist.  All fine and dandy, but qmailadmin is in cgi-bin.mail, and none of the cgi-scripts in cgi-bin-dist actualy seem to work.   This all seems to be config issues with Apache2 which I will admit Ive only used 1.3 up untill now.  Is there something in one of the toaster config files I missed?  Did I miss a step?  What can I do to rectify the problem?


Thanks
Bryan

[IceBerg]

I solved the squirrelmail issue.  

/usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.con
Alias /squirrelmail/ "/usr/local/squirrelmail/"  => Alias /squirrelmail/ "/usr/local/www/squirrelmail/"

I dont know if this is specific to my machine and configuration or what but as I figure this out I'll continue to post my corrections in case someone else happens to have a similar problem.

[IceBerg]

Ok, there was some problem with my SSL that was in the way causing the other apps not to load, at this point the onlythings not working from mail center are:  Isoqlog, and Qmail Scanner Statistics.  Do these only have content after the mail server has been running?