ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.23-1

[Mike Kercher]

Ugh...

[root at genesis MailScanner-4.22-5]# rpm --root=/tmp/rpmroot --noscripts
--nodeps -Uvh mailscanner-4.22-5.noarch.rpm
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /tmp/rpmroot/var/lib/rpm



-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:09 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.23-1


It goes like this:

mkdir /tmp/rpmroot
rpm --root=/tmp/rpmroot --noscripts --nodeps -Uvh
mailscanner-4.23-1.noarch.rpm

Then you will find the file in
         /tmp/rpmroot/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

The tarball will have a different MailScanner.conf file in it as all the
default paths are different (it uses /opt/MailScanner by default).

At 16:14 07/08/2003, you wrote:
>Is there a way to extract the MailScanner.conf from the .rpm so I can 
>get it setup before doing the upgrade?  I've been trying different uses 
>of rpm2cpio without success.  I suppose I could just download the 
>tarball and get it from there.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On 
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:34 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.23-1
>
>
>I have just posted 4.23-1 to the web site. This is a beta release, so 
>the usual rules apply: I don't guarantee it works and I wouldn't advise 
>running it on a production server.
>
>It doesn't improve on the handling of eTrust or bitdefender, they are 
>my next targets. But I thought it would be a good idea for you folks to 
>try it out and see how things are progressing.
>
>Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info
>
>ChangeLog is this:
>
>* New Features and Improvements *
>- Improved error detection in bitdefender-autoupdate.
>- Added 5 minute timeout to clamav-autoupdate.
>- Messages bigger than the max SA testing size are now checked by SA, just
>    only the first n bytes of the message will be checked.
>- Logging now handles syslog-ng better, as it will attempt to re-open the
>    syslog connection if it dies while logging to it.
>- Better mcafee-autoupdate script from Tony Finch. Allows non-root user
>    more easily, and can delete old files if you want it to.
>- Implemented special "silent viruses" list keyword "All-Viruses" which 
>matches
>    the name of any virus. This means you can make messages silent 
>which contain
>    just viruses and none (or a combination) of the HTML hacks that are 
>detected.
>- Implemented "Use Default Rules With Multiple Recipients" configuration
>    option to force predictable results when faced with a message with 
>multiple
>    recipients who have conflicting user preferences.
>- Now check that at least 1 file matches all of the filename patterns
>    specified in "Monitors For Sophos Updates".
>- Implemented various new parameters so that messages which only have
>    dangerous content, and nothing else wrong with them, get a "dangerous
>    content" warning rather than a "virus" warning.
>- "Include Scanner Name In Reports" now also includes the name
"MailScanner"
>    at the start of the report lines that come from MailScanner's own
>    internal filename, filetype and content checks. The exact wording 
>used can
>    be customised in languages.conf.
>
>* Fixes *
>- Corrected minor typo in check_MailScanner cron job.
>- Corrected typo in SweepOther.pm.
>- Corrected handling of non-archives in kavdaemonclient scanner.
>- SQL Logging code now translates '' into 'NULL' before inserting into 
>table.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support