| Prompt |
Notes |
| "There are 3 ways to run this installation program..." |
If you select option 3, you should be logged in with superuser privileges.
Otherwise, you may not have write access to some of the directories where you will need to install files. |
| "The Perl interpreter is not in the expected or indicated location..." |
The Perl interpreter on most systems can be found at /usr/bin/perl.
If this is not the case on your system, you will need to indicate the full path to your Perl interpreter
so that the installer can patch some of SPAMbaffle's executable files.
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| "Specify home directory location..." |
On most systems, this should be "/home".
On systems with many users, sometimes users are grouped into subdirectories beneath /home rather than simply having their user directories located inside /home.
In this case, you should still simply indicate "/home". |
| "Specify CGI directory..." |
This directory will be password protected, so it should NOT simply be your cgi-bin directory, but should be a subdirectory inside cgi-bin.
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| "Specify SPAMbaffle program location" |
If SPAMbaffle is to be used by multiple users on your system, we recommend that SPAMbaffle.pl and other executable programs be installed into /usr/bin.
However, you may install them in any location where any user will be able to access them. |
| "Specify directory location for global filtering rules files" |
Whether you are initally planning to use global filtering rules or not, please specify a location to store such files. |
| "Automated password protection setup..." |
If your webserver runs Apache and allows users to change password protection settings using ".htaccess" files,
the installer can create an .htaccess file in the CGI directory to set up password protection.
If not, you must set up password protection by some other method. |
| "Specify password file..." |
You may wish to use a password file to control access to SPAMbaffle's CGIs which is not used for any other purpose.
It may be possible to use the system password file if your users' home directories are located immediately inside the home directory location specified earlier,
for example, /home/username.
If not (for example, if they are grouped in subdirectories like /home/u/username),
you will need a separate password file where each username combined with the common part of the home path completes the path to their user folder.
For example, users may need to log in to SPAMbaffle's scripts as "u/username" instead of just "username".
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