Test::AutoBuild Installation ============================ Install the perl modules in the usual MakeMaker way: perl Makefile.PL make make sysconfdir=/etc install While it can run as any user, the recommended approach for setting up automatic unattended builds is to create a dedicated (unprivileged) user account. By convention this is called 'builder' with a home dir of '/var/builder' mkdir /var/builder mkdir /var/builder/{build-home,build-root,build-cache} mkdir /var/builder/{public_html,public_ftp} mkdir /var/builder/packages mkdir /var/builder/packages/{rpm,zips,tars} mkdir /var/builder/packages/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SPECS,SOURCES,SRPMS} mkdir /var/builder/packages/rpm/RPMS/{noarch,i386,i486,i586,i686,sparc} useradd -d /var/builder builder chown -R builder.builder /var/builder Once this is complete, edit the file /etc/autobuild/autobuild.conf to suit your environment & modules. The build can be invoked with autobuild.pl --config /etc/autobuild/autobuild.conf More details on installation can be found in the manual page for the Test::AutoBuild module -- End of file