
How to install FEddy
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!!! Attention !!!
new all FEddy programs are installed suid fnet:uucp to allow polling as
root in cron script. This means for example that are not allowed (cause
of missing rights) to export a mail to your homedir, you have to export
to /tmp or other directories, where fnet:uucp is able to write to.

If you dont like/need this edit config/config.make
old line SMODE   = 4710
new line SMODE   = 0710

Also take a look at http://www.fido.de/~pema/FEddy.html and related
pages. There is also a bugreport.html, which lists bugs in the current
release.

1) make config (!!! this requires perl 5.XXX !!!)
   the script tries to setup a user fnet and a group uucp, if not
   already existing. The perl script also sets up a new Makefile.Just
   answer the questions of the script if your are using a REDHAT,DEBIAN
   or SUSE6 Distribution. Since i only have SuSe 5.3 and 6 i would
   apreciate, if someone drop me mail, if settings for SUSE6 (glibc2) are
   identical to another distribution.

   
2) make static and make install-static or
   make install-dynamic (for shared libs)
	(ignore warnings in regex.c)
   the exutables are siud fnet to insure, that all polled files are readable
   by members of the group uucp, regardless of the user who actually
   did the poll

   if you choose dynamic libs they are installed in /usr/local/lib, so
   that path must be in your ld.so.sonf (edit it) and dont forget
   ldconfig -v as root (they are installed during !!!make!!!)
   
3) Now you have to generate the config files for FEddy and your mailer.

   To get a dummy configuration try config/config.user. This will create
   a dummy feddirc, binkley.cfg and config for ifcico, which should run
   on any System (I hope). Please run as the user which wants to have
   fido.

4) copy the basic utilits from util/ to your utilitypath (or some path in
   your environment). This will also be done by make user.
   !!! do to the changes for shared libs all utility-calls to futility
       must issue the -qq or --realquiet option !!!

5) go to the doc directory and read what's in there, especially the files
   "HOWTO-configure" and "assorted_notes".
   
   

NEW
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In subdir texinfo you find the documentation for FEddy in
texinfo-files. Just type make to view the possible forms of
documentation and languages (german and english so far). In short you
can generate info, dvi for printing and html. The info file aslo can be
installed into the info system.

Since texinfo offers such possibilities, it might be possible, that the
man pages are no longer maintained. So far, the texinfo docs contain
just a little bit more than the man pages, but there is a FAQ section,
so if you solved a problem with FEddy, tell me to add up the FAQ section.

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