Upgrade Production Box

[Julian Field]

At 14:56 08/12/2003, you wrote:
>Will the cron job affect this?  Or is only checking for a missing process?

If you do
         service MailScanner stop
it tells the cron to disable itself until you do a
         service MailScanner start
or "restart".


> > From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:29:53 +0000
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Upgrade Production Box
> >
> > 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.
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
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Julian Field
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MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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