tar gz and then what?

[ranjitcool]

Hey Guys,

I was asked to load postfwd-1.18 on to a red hat box.

I downloaded the tar and untar'ed it. however it has no install script at all

these are the folders in it

postfwd-1.18
- bin doc etc man sbin tools

the documentation does not talk of installation at all. I have seen many programs as these with no install script. What am i expected to do with them?

please assist
RJ

[Manko10]

Tarballs often contain uncompiled source code. Is there any file "Makefile" or "configure" or something like that? (please post output of ls ./postfwd-1.18 )

[ranjitcool]

Thanks for the reply,

I did chk for makefile, no makefile no configure

only they have a shell script in bin and in etc a sample config.

[root@xxx postfwd-1.18]# ls
bin doc etc man sbin tools

??

[ved]

hey you should read this
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[ranjitcool]

Didnt help, i know those installs already..

[Manko10]

On postfwd.org you can find introduction about how to install it: postfwd - postfix firewall daemon (scroll down).

[ranjitcool]

i think its about installing perl module and not this .. coz i dont have a makefile.pl included in this source

[Mudgen]

This guy says to unpack it in /usr/local and mv it to /usr/local/postfwd. Also tells how to fix the init script to work with chkconfig, and some other tips:
Installing Postfwd on CentOS/Fedora/Redhat Colovic Vladan

[alf55]

Hey Guys,

I was asked to load postfwd-1.18 on to a red hat box.

I downloaded the tar and untar'ed it. however it has no install script at all

these are the folders in it

postfwd-1.18
- bin doc etc man sbin tools

the documentation does not talk of installation at all. I have seen many programs as these with no install script. What am i expected to do with them?

please assist
RJ

This looks like it is a binary install. I would suggest looking into the "bin" directory to see the binary. In that case "cd /usr/local" then untar the file tall-ball.

[sweetasnz]

I agree with alf55 : bin install = don't need to configure anything
you just need special libraries but you will be warned if you don't have them on your system when you will wtart the software

So, in your untared folder go to bin and type "postfwd" (ie : the binary file)
then, you can add an alias in the /home/user/.bashrc or /home/user/.tcshrc in order to point directly to the bin file :
alias postfwd '/wehre/you/untared/bin/postfwd'