Error installing Version 3.27

[pg]

I re-downloaded, but the result is exactly the same. I attach the full
message as following :

[xxxx]# rpm -Uvh mailscanner-3.27-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:mailscanner            warning:
/usr/local/MailScanner/etc/viruses.to.delete.conf created as
/usr/local/MailScanner/etc/viruses.to.delete.conf.rpmnew
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/spool/mqueue.in: cpio:
rename failed - Is a directory

-Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A. Thompson" <ucs_rat at SHSU.EDU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Version 3.27 and 4.11


> re-download the rpm.  sounds like you have a bad rpm.  Might try a
> md5sum to check the file.  I assume the md5sums are on the website.
>
> --rat
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 20:39, pg wrote:
> > I'm using Redhat 7.2. I tried to upgrade to 3.27 from 3.26 but the
following
> > error message appeared :
> >
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/spool/mqueue.in: cpio:
> > rename failed - Is a directory
> >
> > -Jason
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 7:48 PM
> > Subject: ANNOUNCE: Version 3.27 and 4.11
> >
> >
> > > Happy New Year everyone!
> > >
> > > I have just released updated versions of both V3 and V4.
> > >
> > > The only change for V3 is an important security fix, which you can
easily
> > > apply without upgrading if you don't want to. See the ChangeLog below
for
> > > details.
> > >
> > > There are many improvements and changes for V4. A few of them are:
> > > - Security fix is included
> > > - Modify Subject: line to show a message has been scanned
> > > - Stop MailScanner replying to mailing lists that send it viruses
> > > - Quarantine-cleaning script included
> > > - Virus scanner update cron job replaced by global updater script
> > > - Full installation instructions for FreeBSD
> > > - Improved AntiVir, Sophos, F-Prot and F-Secure parsers
> > >
> > > Also, in the spirit of Perl tradition, there is now a MailScanner
Poetry
> > > page for all you closet bards out there. Contributions are most
welcome
> > :-)
> > >
> > > It can all be downloaded as usual from
> > >         www.mailscanner.info
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > For completeness, here is the entry from the ChangeLog for V4.11:
> > >
> > > *Security*
> > > - *** Important Security Fix ***
> > >
> > >    You must edit the "sendmail -bd ..." command in your init script
and
> > add
> > >                            -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn
> > >    as otherwise people could maliciously bypass MailScanner on servers
> > that
> > > are under heavy load.
> > >    It is *vital* that you protect yourself with this change.
> > >    However, please note there have been no reports at all of this
problem
> > > being actively exploited.
> > >    It is included in the init scripts that are part of the RPM
> > > distributions, so RPM users just need to upgrade to the latest
> > mailscanner*rpm.
> > >
> > > *New Features and Improvements*
> > > - Added 2 more configuration options to modify the subject line
whenever a
> > > message is scanned (but no other subject line changes have happened)
so it
> > > is obvious to all that the message has been scanned. By default this
will
> > > (if enabled) add "{Scanned}" to the end of the Subject: line.
> > > - Added "Never Notify Senders Of Precedence" configuration option so
that
> > > you can stop MailScanner replying to postings to mailing lists and
other
> > > bulk mail.
> > > - A modified version of Steve Patterson's "clean.quarantine" script is
> > > included as a daily cron job. It is disabled by default. Edit it to
see
> > how
> > > to enable it. If you edit it, it will not be over-written by later
> > upgrades
> > > to MailScanner.
> > > - Written an update_virus_scanners script which updates all installed
> > > scanners. This is called hourly, as daily wasn't often enough and
RedHat
> > > don't offer anything between hourly and daily.
> > > - Implemented full support for BSD with installation instructions
based on
> > > the tar distribution.
> > > - Added Swedish translation of all reports.
> > > - Added Spanish and Slovak translation of language strings.
> > > - Added wrapper script for inoculan.
> > > - Added an AntiVir autoupdate script.
> > > - Improved AntiVir parser to handle new output format.
> > > - Sophos parser improved to detect Sophos complaining about being
given 1
> > > part of a multi-part archive. Gets flagged as a virus.
> > > - F-Prot and F-Secure parsers improved to handle unusual virus names
and
> > > quieter handling of archives containing infected files.
> > > - Added "$filename" variable expansion in sender warnings. Used it in
the
> > > English versions of the sender warnings.
> > > - Completely new daemonising code to fix problems with ssh sessions
> > > refusing to die.
> > > - Added "startin" and "startout" parameters to init.d scripts for
RedHat
> > > and SuSE.
> > > - Improved error reporting slightly in configuration compiler.
> > > - Spam logging now includes the recipient domains as well as the
sender.
> > > - Incoming Queue Dirs can now be a file listing directories which
include
> > > wildcards.
> > > - Added the message's subject line to the sender spam reports.
> > > - Added a "sleep 5" in between the stop and start in "restart" in the
> > > init.d script.
> > > - Creates quarantine directories as required.
> > > - Added link checking in code for finding incoming queue dirs.
> > > - Added note for McAfee users about avoiding symlinks with anything
even
> > > remotely connected to McAfee itself.
> > > - Added "Poetry" page to the web site for Nick's idle thoughts...
> > >
> > > *Fixes*
> > > - Fixed problem of orphaned queue files being left in incoming queue
when
> > > MailScanner child processes are killed half-way through clearing a
> > message.
> > > - Fixed file locking code in Config.pm so Exim users do not have to
have
> > > the config files owned by exim.exim instead of root.root.
> > > - Fixed Exim missing-characters-from-start-of-message bug.
> > > - Fixed SpamAssassin "timeout 260 of 20" counter bug.
> > > - Fixed EximDiskStore file locking bug.
> > > - Fixed bug where unscanned messages are not properly archived if not
> > > archiving as raw queue files.
> > > - Fixed bug stopping Exim collecting large message batches.
> > > - Changed default virus scanner from "sophos" to "none".
> > > --
> > > Julian Field
> > > www.MailScanner.info
> > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > >
>