Hi Dan, All I can say is, it works for me. I have SA in the following locations:
/home/kc8hr/bin/sausr/bin/spamassassin /home/kc8hr/bin/sausr/share/spamassassin On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Non-root mentioned twice: These should be consolidated > $ egrep -in 'personal|non-root' /var/tmp/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55/INSTALL > > 45:To install as non-root, do something like this: > 105:Installing SpamAssassin for Personal Use (Not System-Wide) > > also, telling the Personal Use user to do "make install" causes: > > mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl: Permission denied at > /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 80 > make[1]: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/danspam/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55' > > No, your instructions are very wrong > > make > make install > > we never get thru make install. even if we: > > cd $(tdir)/Mail-SpamAssassin-* && \ > perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sausr SYSCONFDIR=~/saetc \ > INST_PREFIX=~/usr INST_SYSCONFDIR=~/etc && \ > make INST_PREFIX=~/usr INST_SYSCONFDIR=~/etc && \ > make install INST_PREFIX=~/usr INST_SYSCONFDIR=~/etc > > please somebody tell me how to make install in $HOME!? > > You are trying to write to /usr/local/lib/perl ... but I want to write > to my home dir, am I "SOL"?! Make sure you give the full path in the makefile, like mine: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/kc8hr/bin/sausr SYSCONFDIR=/home/kc8hr/bin/saetc Good Luck! Tim -- Timothy J. Schutte | AIM: TimSchutte | ICQ: 57061028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yahoo: kc8hr | http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr "If it ain't broke, then you're not trying hard enough!" --Red Green ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk