| I tried installing procmail in my home directory since am not the
| system administrator, anyways, got the following error (which am
| attaching it as a text file) and didn't know what it ment!
Sadiq,
You tried doing "make install" without changing the installation directories
in the Makefile. Since you aren't a sysadmin, a process with your privileges
couldn't move the man pages into /usr/man/man1/.
Try either of these:
1. change the definition of BASENAME in the Makefile to
BASENAME=$(HOME) # the parentheses are needed; curly braces work too,
# but you can't use just $HOME
or
2. Use "make all" instead of "make install" so that all the binaries and
man pages will just be put into the ./new subdirectory of the directory where
you're building procmail. When the compilation is done you can mv them
wherever you want.
I've built procmail many times through many versions on many sites, never
once with system administrator privileges, so I'm a veteran of doing this.