3. Installation

The virtfs package comes tarred up with:

• virtuald - The wrapper which runs when a service (FTP, Email, etc..) is called upon.
• tcp_virtuald - The same wrapper as virtuald, but this one is if you want to use tcp wrappers (ie. tcpd hosts.allow and hosts.deny files).
• virt_template.pl - A Perl script to aid in creating the template filesystem.
• virt_template.conf - The configuration script for virt_template
• virtfs - The tool used to help set up virtual server.
• virtrun - A simple script to execute a specific command on a virtual server.
• sendmail.init - A daemon to start up and end Sendmail services for all your virtual servers.
• virt.conf - The configuration file used for virtfs. You may have to edit this.

To compile the source simply type make from the directory where you untarred the package.

make install will install the files to /usr/local/bin except for virt.conf, which is copied to the /etc/ directory. Only root can execute these programs and edit the configuration files.

If installing from a RPM, the files will be installed just as above, but instead the location will be /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin (configuration files will still be in /etc).

Now you are ready to set up the template filesystem. Please read more below on how to set this up (it's easy).