OS/X Installation Tips - ASK Wiki OS/X Installation Tips



As of 10.1.X, OSX standard sendmail install isn't what it could be. First, make sure you can send and receive mail normally. Once you do that:



1. Make sure you run ASK from /usr/adm/sm.bin instead of from /usr/bin (or whatever). You will need to create this directory, as Apple failed to ship with it. Or you will need to figure out how to configure smrsh (the secure shell sendmail uses to deliver mail (man smrsh)). Make sure you are invoking ASK from the correct location in your .forward file.

2. Note that all root mail is forwarded to /dev/null on MAC OSX (look at your /var/root/.forward file) -- probably because there is no valid root login account. This means that all mail errors get tossed away. You will probably want to change that to a real user so that you can see if anything is going wrong.



Please let us know if you have any problems installing ASK on OSX.