Upgrade Production Box

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

You don't really need to stop anything. We upgrade on production boxes all
the time.
Basically ignore the running instance of MailScanner completely, run the
install script make the upgrade to the .conf files and then restart it. No
mail will be lost

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
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Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Christian Campbell
> Sent: 08 December 2003 14:00
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Upgrade Production Box
>
>
> I'm planning to upgrade MailScanner on a production server, which I can't
> take down.  I assume if I stop MailScanner, and leave Sendmail
> running, will
> sendmail keep accepting mail into it's queue while I'm upgrading
> MS which MS
> can process after upgrading?
>
> Christian
>
> Christian P. Campbell
> Systems Engineer
> Information Technology Department
> Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc.
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> Cell: (802) 734-5023
> Email: ccampbell at brueggers dot com
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