PMDF Installation Guide Linux Edition - Process Software

Generating an Initial PMDF ConfigurationUsing the Web-based PMDF-MTA Configuration UtilityThen, using Netscape (version 3.0 or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer (version4.0 or later), with JavaScript enabled, connect tohttp://localhost:7633/where localhost is the TCP/IP name of your PMDF system, and then select the‘‘Configuration Utilities’’ link.Each screen in the configuration utility will have radio buttons, checkboxes and/ortext input fields. If you click on any of these fields, instructions for the field will appearin the ‘‘Help’’ box at the bottom of the page. Note that use of a full-screen web-browserwindow on a display at least 800 x 600 will avoid unnecessary vertical scrolling.Once you have made your selections and returned to the main configuration screen,select the ‘‘Generate’’ button, and on the next page the ‘‘Confirm’’ button to generate yourconfiguration. Finally, a checklist of post-install items will be displayed.3.3 Using the Command Line Configuration ProcedureThis section presents a step-by-step procedure for generating your PMDF configurationfiles using the command line PMDF automatic configuration utility.1. Configuration of PMDF should be done by root to ensure that the necessaryprivileges are available to create the configuration files. If you are not logged inas root, do so now.2. Begin the configuration procedure by invoking the PMDF configuration utility asfollows, assuming that you have /usr/bin in your search path:# cd /pmdf/table# pmdf configure mta3. The configuration procedure will optionally print out detailed explanations of eachprompt as it proceeds. Unless you are familiar with the procedure, you should enablethe detailed output.4. The answers to all the prompts are logged to a file in the /pmdf/table directory.After the first configuration, pmdf configure can use the answers to the previousrun as the default answers. The utility will ask:Do you want to use answers from the previous run as defaults?Answer YES if you want to have your previous answers presented as default answers.You may use the backslash character, \, to clear a default answer.5. If this is the first time that PMDF has been configured on this system, theconfiguration utility will ask if you would also like to configure the PMDF Dispatcher.(The PMDF Service Dispatcher is a resident process that listens for incoming TCP/IPconnections on various ports and matches those incoming connection requests tovarious servers, e.g., the multithreaded SMTP server, a POP3 server, an IMAP3–3