How do you make it work?

[Russ Allbery]

Rick Reed <rreed at budgetext.com> writes:

> I read the INSTALL, thanks.

> I've done a make and make install on other programs before, but this was
> an rpm so all I did was rpm -i inn-2... for my rpm, and of course it
> just drops you to the next line when it's done.  I thought rpms "just
> install" everything and you're good to go.

> No inn* services are running on my machine even after a reboot or two.

> Where do I run the make and make install and all that from?  I have no
> idea where it put this stuff, and all the FAQ and HOWTOs I find refer to
> things that don't exist on my RHL 7.2 box or are ancient and refer to
> things like Linux 2.x.

I'm afraid that the real answer to your specific question is that the
person who created the Red Hat RPMs is not to my knowledge on this mailing
list, and while we all know a lot about INN, we know much less about the
Red Hat RPMs.  I've never even downloaded it, let alone installed it.  So
I have no idea what it sets up and what it doesn't, and the best advice
that I can give is to try to follow INSTALL while tearing your hair out
trying to find where they scattered INN parts.

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