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Date:      Wed, 5 May 1999 05:29:31 +0100
From:      Fernando Cozinheiro <cooker@queen.staff.ci.ua.pt>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Fernando Cozinheiro <cooker@queen.staff.ci.ua.pt>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Fernando Cozinheiro <cooker@ua.pt>
Subject:   Re: Compiling QPOPPER3.x
Message-ID:  <19990505052930.L334@queen.staff.ci.ua.pt>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905041536450.28350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Tue, May 04, 1999 at 03:37:15PM -0700
References:  <19990504083723.E334@queen.staff.ci.ua.pt> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905041536450.28350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On 99 May 04, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Fernando Cozinheiro wrote:
> 
> > Dear friends:
> > 
> > I'm trying to install  QPOPPER3.0  (beta 13 and beta 15) at FreeBSD  3.0
> > systems, but I can't  succeed.  I think the problem  comes from the fact
> > that  ./configure  doesn't  recognize  GDBM located under  /usr/local...
> > When I try to compile the program, the compiler  presents some problems,
> > linke  "undefined  symbols",  because  there  some  problems  at QPOPPER
> > sources.  With some little arrangements at popper.h and popauth.c files,
> > the compilation process succeeds.
> > 
> > When    I    move     /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.a     to    /usr/lib    and
> > /usr/local/include/gdbm.h  to /usr/include  ./configure  detect GDBM and
> > the  compilation  succeeds...  but,  when  I try  to use  POPAUTH,  this
> > program presents some problems, as you can see:
> > 
> > mail# cd /usr/local/etc/qpopper
> > mail# ls -la
> > total 349
> > drwxrwxrwx   2 root  wheel     512 May  3 20:44 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel     512 May  1 21:14 ..
> > -rwsr-xr-x   1 pop   wheel   43306 May  3 20:42 popauth
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  300665 May  3 20:42 popper
> > mail# ./popauth -user test
> > ./popauth: unable to open POP authentication DB /usr/local/etc/qpopper/pop.auth:
> >      No such file or directory (580)
> 
> Hm, it wants pop.auth and you have popauth.  What happens if you symlink
> it?

I think  that the  problem  is not  this  one.  In fact,  there  are two
different   things:  popauth  is  the  program  that  manages  the  APOP
database; pop.auth is the database file name.

Any additional help will be appreciated.

> 
> ln -s popauth pop.auth
> 
> Doug White                               
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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> 

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Fernando Cozinheiro
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