4.24-5

[Erik Jakobsen]

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> Erik
>
> If you are using REdHat using the RPM version makes a lot more sense. It
> sounds to me that you are using the tar.gz version which would be suited to
> Slackware etc.

I donwloaded the tar.gz for RedHat.

> What we do is:
> 1. Create a directory on /home for temporary work files
> 2. cd /home/work
> 3. wget blablah.rpm.tar.gz (from the MailScanner site)
> 4. tar -zxvf blah.rpm.tar.gz
> 5 cd MailScanner-blah
> 6 ./install.sh

But I don't think its necessary to run the ./install.sh, as I have the
version before the released one today running.

The my opinion is, that what I need is using the upgrade file, but I
might be wrong in that.

> If your version of perl is ok it will install away without any intervention,
> then

I think it is, but how to be sure of it ?.


> Cd /etc/MailScanner
>
> upgrade_Mailscanner_conf

That's the file I think is the only one I need to run, to get my running
version up_to_date.

> It will give you a simple example of usage

It gives me 2 examples. One for having used rpm, and the other for
tar.gz installed version.


> Done
>
>
> Mr. Michele Neylon
> Blacknight Solutions
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Erik Jakobsen
>>Sent: 06 October 2003 19:32
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: 4.24-5
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>I tried today to upgrade via the upgrade_Mailscanner_conf
>>file. I'm not sure with of the 2 options I shall choose, as I
>>always unpack the tar.gz file using Midnight Commander on my
>>Clarkconnect RedHat 9.0 server.
>>
>>After the the package has been opened and shows the directory
>>name, I copy the whole content to /opt, where its placed as
>>/opt/Mailscanner-4.24-5.
>>
>>I think I just have to rename the 2 directories where the old
>>and the new MailScanner are placed ?.
>>
>>What is difficult is to state, which of the 2 ones -rpm or
>>tar.gz I have used. I am quite sure its the last one, as I
>>unpacked it using the MC as mentioned uo the lines.
>>
>>Can anyone help me to get it clear to me ?.
>>*********************************************************************
>>If you are using the RPM distributions then try this:
>>
>>cd /etc/MailScanner
>>upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf
>>MailScanner.conf.rpmnew > MailScanner.new mv MailScanner.conf
>>MailScanner.old mv MailScanner.new  MailScanner.conf
>>
>>If you are using the tar distribution so that the old version
>>is in /opt/MailScanner and the new one is in
>>/opt/MailScanner.new then:
>>
>>cd /opt/MailScanner.new/etc
>>../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
>>/opt/MailScanner.new/etc/MailScanner.conf > MailScanner.new
>>mv MailScanner.conf MailScanner.old mv MailScanner.new
>>MailScanner.conf
>>**************************************************************
>>*********
>>--
>>
>>/Erik
>>
>>
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/Erik