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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain BDAY

BDAY 0.4.2 can be obtained from:

Older versions can be obtained from: http://www.netmeister.org/apps/

2.2 Requirements

In order to use BDAY 0.4.2, you need the following programs installed on your machine:

Required:

2.3 Compilation and installation

% tar zxvf bday-0.4.2.tar.gz
or
% gzip -d -c bday-0.4.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
and then
% cd bday-0.4.2
If "sendmail" does not live in "/usr/sbin/sendmail", open "yplibd" and change the path in the following line:
$sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
If perl does not live in "/usr/bin/perl", open "bday" and "bdayd" and change the very first line according to the location of perl on your system.
Save the files and then
make install
You will need superuser privileges for this step.
Should you run into problems, report them to the the author at jschauma@netmeister.org

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