This section presents a step-by-step procedure for generating your PMDF-X400 configuration files using the pmdf configure x400 utility. Refer to Chapter 11 for a sample configuration dialogue.

1. Configuration of PMDF-X400 should be done by root to ensure that the necessary privileges are available to create the configuration files. If you are not logged in as root, do so now.
2. Begin the configuration procedure by invoking the PMDF-X400 configuration utility as follows, assuming that you have /usr/bin in your search path:

   # cd /pmdf/table # pmdf configure x400

3. The configuration procedure will optionally print out detailed explanations of each prompt as it proceeds. Unless you are familiar with the procedure, enable the detailed output.
4. The answers to all the prompts are logged to a file in the /pmdf/table directory. After the first configuration, pmdf configure x400 can use the answers to the previous run as the default answers.
5. Closely examine the example configuration presented in Chapter 11. The sample dialogue should be analogous to your own network configuration. In addition, the example was run with detailed prompting enabled, and will prepare you for the questions you need to answer for your own site. The sample site continues the example presented in Figure 5-1, adding an X.400 gateway to the naples system.
6. Once you have completed running the pmdf configure x400 utility, print the /pmdf/table/x400.checklist file and complete the configuration by following the steps outlined in the checklist.
7. Test out your configuration initially using the pmdf test -channel x400 command, as described in the PMDF-X400 Chapter of the PMDF System Manager's Guide. Once your configuration is able to successfully connect to the remote MTA you can test further by sending mail to an X.400 recipient. X.400 address formats are described in the PMDF System Manager's Guide and PMDF User's Guide.
8. If messages do not seem to be getting out, then use, for instance, the ls utility to check whether they are stuck in either of the /pmdf/queue/x400_to_mime or /pmdf/queue/x400_local directories. Examination of log files in the /pmdf/log directory will help isolate gateway delivery problems. See the sub-section Debugging and Tracing MTA Connections in the PMDF-X400 chapter of the PMDF System Manager's Guide for additional assistance with X.400 specific problems. See the section Maintenance and Troubleshooting in the PMDF System Manager's Guide for additional information on tracking general PMDF delivery problems.
9. If everything appears to be functional, and you have completed your configuration of PMDF-X400 for the present, you might want to compile your configuration for increased performance. Use the pmdf cnbuild utility. See the PMDF System Manager's Guide for more information.