Installing the DRAC daemon

If you have set the correct installation path in the Makefile, you can install the DRAC daemon with the command...

# make install
and the man pages with the command...
# make install-man

If your POP/IMAP servers reside on a different host from your DRAC daemon, you will need to set up the /etc/mail/dracd.allow file. It must contain the IP address of each POP/IMAP server, or an IP address range that contains them. The format is the same as the /var/yp/securenets file, a mask followed by a base address, both specified as dotted quads. Note that the mask is not your network mask. For example...

255.255.255.252 192.168.16.0
255.255.255.255 192.168.16.8
255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1
allows the range 192.168.16.0 to 192.168.16.3 and the single addresses 192.168.16.8 and 127.0.0.1.

For Solaris 2.x, there is a startup script, dracd-setup, included with the DRAC distribution. This script should work with Linux as well, provided that you built rpc.dracd with the recommended rpcgen flags and installed it in a standard location. Otherwise, use the script for Redhat Linux called dracd-setup.linux. You will have to customize the script with your installation path, install it in /etc/init.d, and create a link S78dracd in /etc/rc2.d. Then, you can start the daemon with the command...

# sh /etc/init.d/dracd-setup start
For Debian Linux, try this file.

For RedHat Linux 7.0, Colin Bloch has compiled a complete set of instructions for installing and using DRAC.