Automating MailScanner.conf upgrades

[Julian Field]

At 16:25 18/02/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry if this was unclear, i didn't mean that the upgrade script should
>fetch the rpm but the other way around.
>
>I was thinking of including the upgrade script in the RPM, and after
>RPM is done upgrading the MS binaries have it check which version of
>MailScanner is running and then run the script from the RPM wrapper  to do
>the upgrading automagically.

I'm being a bit cautious first time round.

When it works out you are doing an upgrade of the RPM, it will tell you to
run the script. When you run the script it will tell you exactly what you
need to type to have it do all the work for you.


>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 20:11 17/02/2003, you wrote:
> > >Thanks for this excellent script Julian!
> > >
> > >This will save me tons of time when doing upgrades on several
> > >servers.
> >
> > I got fed up of doing it the hard way too. After sitting down explaining
> > the problem (to my long-suffering lodger!) I realised that it wasn't that
> > hard to do.
> >
> > >Will the script be supplies with every version of MailScanner? Would it be
> > >possible to have the script even detect a 4.x version of MailScanner and
> > >have rpm run the script on the default installation paths?
> >
> > I didn't really intend it to go and fetch the new rpm for you. But it
> > should work with just about any version of MailScanner as it doesn't use
> > anything outside the 2 conf files supplied on the command line. It will
> > even do *some* of the work upgrading V3 to V4.
> >
> > >I tried it on my MS systems and it works like a charm!
> >
> > Cool :-)
> >
> >
> > >On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> > >
> > > > Morning all,
> > > >
> > > > The biggest pain in doing an upgrade of MailScanner is working out
> what has
> > > > changed between your current MailScanner.conf and the new one.
> > > >
> > > > So I have written a tool to help you do this. It will
> > > > - copy over all your old settings into the new file
> > > > - copy over all the comments you have added to settings
> > > > - add the default settings for all new settings
> > > > - delete obsolete settings
> > > > - print a summary of what it has done,
> > > >    including the settings that were added/removed
> > > >
> > > > It is attached to this message. To find out how to use it, just run
> it and
> > > > it will tell you.
> > > >
> > > > The only time it will run into trouble is when the supplied value for a
> > > > setting is commented out, and you have uncommented it. It can't
> tell the
> > > > difference between lines like that and normal comments. So Exim users
> > > beware!
> > > >
> > > > It can't be perfect, but you should find it helps.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> > >believed to be clean.
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> >
>
>
>--
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>believed to be clean.

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Julian Field
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