Missing modules

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Aug 30 12:41:58 IST 2003


At 07:04 30/08/2003, you wrote:
>After a clumsy attempt at installing Mailwatch, I blew away some files
>and reinstalled the MailScanner RPM.
>
>I ended up with a completely empty /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner, and
>for some reason runnign the RPMs again didn't fill it in. Even rerunning
>4.23-7 and then 4.23-9 didn't get them back. I copied some over from my
>older server, but now that I've reinstalled everyhting in sight I had to
>comment a bunch of modules out of MailScanner itself to get it to run:
>
>
># Van) use MailScanner::MCPMessage;
># Van) use MailScanner::MCP;
># Van) use MailScanner::SweepOther;
># Van) use MailScanner::SweepViruses;
># Van) use MailScanner::TNEF;
># Van) use MailScanner::WorkArea;
>
>Are these files part of MailScanner, or part of Mailwatch? If they are
>MailScanner, why isn't the installer putting them back when they are
>missing, and how can I get it to do so?

All those files are part of MailScanner, and are kind of useful (Guess what
"SweepViruses" does for example :-)
Do an
         rpm -Uvh --force mailscanner-4.22-5.noarch.rpm
That should force it to install all the files again.

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