Configuring the Email Sending Daemon to Access the Marketing File System on UNIX

The following procedure describes how to configure the Email Sending Daemon to access the Marketing File System on a UNIX server.

To configure the ESD to access the Marketing File System on a UNIX Server

  1. Log in to Siebel Server.

  2. Navigate to the Administration - Server Configuration screen, Servers, and then the Parameters view.

  3. Query for Marketing File System.

    Write down the value of this parameter to use later in this task.

  4. Determine if this directory is exported through NFS. If it is not, then export it.

  5. Open the esd.properties file with a text editor, such as vi.

  6. On the Email Sending Daemon server, make sure the Marketing File System is NFS mounted. If it is not, then mount it at this time.

    Write down the full path name of the mounted Marketing File System to use later in this task.

  7. In the string esd.mountPoint, at the end of the string, add the Marketing File System NFS mount directory.

  8. Save your changes to the esd.properties file.