lr-20001211 on FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE?

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:57 AM +0100 2000/12/13, Joost van Baal wrote:

>  If you configure the package as
>
>  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
>     --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/logreport \
>     --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/logreport
>
>  , and /usr/local/bin is in your PATH, than you don't have to modify
>  your PATH.

	Alright, I'll try that instead.  I had previously used:

		./configure --prefix=/usr/local/logreport \
		--sysconfdir=/usr/local/logreport/etc \
		--libexecdir=/usr/local/logreport/lib

	Which didn't work so well for me.

>  achieves what you want. Symlinks are not needed. Please don't make these.

	Right, I didn't think that was a good idea, but the instructions 
weren't entirely clear and it seemed to be the only way to make it 
work at the time.

>  Please note that, when using --prefix=foo, --sysconfdir should be
>  foo/etc/logreport, and libexecdir should be foo/lib/logreport. I am
>  working on a more flexible scheme.

	Now that I understand this a bit more, I don't have a problem 
with this stuff (although I do hope it gets improved soon ;-).  I 
think I misunderstood the instructions I had read.

>  lr_log2mail uses mutt. We use this because of the easy setting of
>  From and Reply-To address. Indeed, not using mutt gains a lot in
>  portability. I'll think about it. (As a quick and dirty workaround,
>  one can run lr_log2report and pipe it's output to mail or sendmail.)

	You can set your own headers and then pipe the output to 
"sendmail -t" and get the same effect.  In fact, I'd argue that this 
works a lot better than using mutt.

	However, while this works for sites using sendmail or postfix, 
this loses portability for sites that are running alternative MTAs 
such as qmail or exim.


	You may end up needing to add a section during the install 
process that asks the admin how mail should be generated, and give 
them one of several options that you've already configured (including 
at least one possibility of talking directly to a specified MTA via 
SMTP).

	If none of those pre-configured options work, then it would be up 
to them to make something that does work, and then interface that to 
your program.

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