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Installing Inflex

Download the package from: http://www.pldaniels.com

cd /usr/src gunzip < inflex-1.0.6.tar.gz | tar -xvf - cd inflex-1.0.6 make --- Welcome to inflex This install program will perform the following operations... Ask a series of questions regarding inflex Create required user/group account Locate your sendmail.cf and create an inflex.cf Ask you 'are you really sure'... Install inflex files into specified location Inform you of changes made. OS which you are installing this for? 1. Linux RedHat 2. Linux Slackware 3. Linux Debian 4. Linux SuSE 5. FreeBSD Choice [1] : --- AntiVirus program to use ? 0. No AntiVirus 1. FProt/Datafellows FSAV 2. Sophos Sweep 3. McAfee UVscan 4. NOD 32 5. Inoculate Choice [0] : inflex install directory? [/usr/local/inflex] : (Note: if you do not have an inflex user or group, inflex will add them for you). inflex user [inflex] : inflex group [inflex] : User to receive all email blocked reports ? [postmaster] : Sendmail configuration file [/etc/sendmail.cf] : Details of your installation... Install path: /usr/local/inflex inflex User: inflex inflex Group: inflex Admin Email: postmaster Sendmail.cf file: /etc/sendmail.cf Are these details correct (y/n) : y Checking user/group details... groupadd: group inflex exists added group 'inflex'.. done. user 'inflex' already exists. Getting UID/GID...UID for inflex = 505, GID for inflex = 505 Creating MDA file... done. Applying updates to sendmail.cf to create inflex.cf... done. Installing files... done. 'inflex.cf' already exists, do you want to overwrite? (y/N) : y done. cleaning up temporary install files... done. Install sendmail periodic (15 minute) queuing in crontab (y/n) ? : n Do you want to restartsendmail (y/N) : y Congratulations, Inflex is installed. Please add the new sendmail startup to your startup scripts, the startup line should now appear as... /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m -C /usr/local/inflex/inflex.cf Thank you and enjoy the new safety of your email... This install script was backported from the commercial XaMime Email sanitation program. http://xamime.com 1.0.11 - May 12 7:18 EST 2001 pldaniels <pldaniels@pldaniels.com>

Originally Published: Tuesday, 5 June 2001	Author: Kristina Pfaff-Harris
Published to: enhance_articles_sysadmin/Sysadmin	Page: 2/2 - [Printable]
Software Review: Inflex 1.0.6: Sanitized for Your Protection Kristina Pfaff-Harris reviews the latest version of Inflex for Linux.com, a mail sanitizer released under the GPL and a crucial part of any sysadmin's arsenal against spam and other malicious email.

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Installing Inflex Download the package from: http://www.pldaniels.com cd /usr/src gunzip < inflex-1.0.6.tar.gz \| tar -xvf - cd inflex-1.0.6 make --- Welcome to inflex This install program will perform the following operations... Ask a series of questions regarding inflex Create required user/group account Locate your sendmail.cf and create an inflex.cf Ask you 'are you really sure'... Install inflex files into specified location Inform you of changes made. OS which you are installing this for? 1. Linux RedHat 2. Linux Slackware 3. Linux Debian 4. Linux SuSE 5. FreeBSD Choice [1] : --- AntiVirus program to use ? 0. No AntiVirus 1. FProt/Datafellows FSAV 2. Sophos Sweep 3. McAfee UVscan 4. NOD 32 5. Inoculate Choice [0] : inflex install directory? [/usr/local/inflex] : (Note: if you do not have an inflex user or group, inflex will add them for you). inflex user [inflex] : inflex group [inflex] : User to receive all email blocked reports ? [postmaster] : Sendmail configuration file [/etc/sendmail.cf] : Details of your installation... Install path: /usr/local/inflex inflex User: inflex inflex Group: inflex Admin Email: postmaster Sendmail.cf file: /etc/sendmail.cf Are these details correct (y/n) : y Checking user/group details... groupadd: group inflex exists added group 'inflex'.. done. user 'inflex' already exists. Getting UID/GID...UID for inflex = 505, GID for inflex = 505 Creating MDA file... done. Applying updates to sendmail.cf to create inflex.cf... done. Installing files... done. 'inflex.cf' already exists, do you want to overwrite? (y/N) : y done. cleaning up temporary install files... done. Install sendmail periodic (15 minute) queuing in crontab (y/n) ? : n Do you want to restartsendmail (y/N) : y Congratulations, Inflex is installed. Please add the new sendmail startup to your startup scripts, the startup line should now appear as... /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m -C /usr/local/inflex/inflex.cf Thank you and enjoy the new safety of your email... This install script was backported from the commercial XaMime Email sanitation program. http://xamime.com 1.0.11 - May 12 7:18 EST 2001 pldaniels <pldaniels@pldaniels.com>
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