Upgrade Production Box

[Julian Field]

Curious.
I have a nasty feeling that the rpm -Uvh mailscanner.... does a "service
MailScanner restart" at the end, though not quite sure why I wrote that :(

At 17:18 08/12/2003, you wrote:
>Hi Julian,
>
>Did this change on a semi-recent version as I upgraded my remaining box to
>4.25-14 from 4.24-5 today - I did:
>
>service MailScanner stop
>service MailScanner startin
><upgrade>
>service MailScanner start
>
>But MailScanner was restarted mid-upgrade by the hourly cron job?? - did I
>do something stupid, or was this introduced in a later version??
>
>Cheers,
>Steve.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: 08 December 2003 16:05
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Upgrade Production Box
>
>
>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.
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