Upgrade Production Box

[Julian Field]

At 14:44 08/12/2003, you wrote:
> >
> > At 13:59 08/12/2003, you wrote:
> > >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?
> >
> > You don't say what OS/Version you are running, so it's hard
> > to precise.
> > If you are running one of the RPM-based systems, then
> >          service MailScanner stop
> >          service MailScanner startin
> > will leave it just running the incoming sendmail but nothing else.
> > Then when you are finished upgrading,
> >          service MailScanner restart
> > to get it all going again.
>
>Thanks for the reply Julian.  Should I use the ./install.sh script to do the
>installation, or do an rpm -Uvh on all the packages individually?

You can't rpm -Uvh the packages as most of them are SRPMs and not RPMs. So
use install.sh.
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Julian Field
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