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[Warren Howard <address@concealed>]

On 10/20/2006 02:34 AM, Dan Delaney wrote:
> Hello all. I'm just now installing Sympa. (Been using Mailman for
> years and Sympa looks like it does a lot that I always wanted Mailman
> to do.) I was reading through the manual and read the page about
> directory organization
> (www.sympa.org/doc/html/node3.html#organization). It indicates that
> everything should go into a folder at /usr/local/sympa-stable, which
> makes perfect sense and is congruent with most other open source,
> autoconf-based application (such as Apache). Yet if I just do
> ./configure it seems to default to putting everything into
> /home/sympa, which is unlike any other app out there. Why does the
> manual state one thing but the configure program do something
> completely different?
>
> Thanks
> --Dan
>
Using ./configure you can put things where ever you like.  I did this
for my set up :

./configure --with-confdir=/etc/sympa
--with-iconsdir=/var/www/localhost/icons --without-initdir
--with-lockdir=/var/run/sympa --with-piddir=/var/run/sympa
--with-etcdir=/etc/sympa --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-secure

So I left *most* of Sympa under the default /home/sympa location and
moved out only selected bits and all my local customisation happens
under /etc/sympa.

Here's another example that I found on the web, when doing research for
my set up (I'm also a first time Sympa user) :

--prefix=/usr \
        --with-sbindir=/usr/sbin \
        --with-spooldir=/var/spool/sympa \
        --with-confdir=/etc/sympa \
        --with-etcdir=/etc/sympa \
        --with-cgidir=/usr/libexec/sympa \
        --with-iconsdir=/usr/share/sympa/icons \
        --with-datadir=/usr/share/sympa \
        --with-expldir=/var/lib/sympa/lists \
        --with-libdir=/usr/lib/sympa \
        --with-scriptdir=/usr/share/sympa/scripts \
        --with-sampledir=/usr/share/doc/sympa/example \
        --with-piddir=/var/run/sympa \
        --without-initdir \
        --with-mandir=/usr/share/man \
        --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/sympa \
        --with-localedir=/usr/share/locale \

At first I found it really hard to come to grips with all the Sympa
files and directories --- so I didn't want to spread everything all over
the place.  I'm pretty happy with that decision (leaving mostly
everything under /home/sympa) because it has made finding things later
really easy, especially when searching in the contents of files (I use
"find /home/sympa -type f -exec grep -Hi 'thinginfileIamlookingfor' {}
\;" a lot).  Now that I'm a little more comfortable with the way Sympa
works I'd consider moving things around a bit more if I was doing a set
up again.

B.T.W In the past I've seen a mailman install done completely under
/home/mailman, so I don't think that installing under /home is all that
unheard of!


Regards,


Warren.