4.24-5

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Erik

If you are running RedHat download and install:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/rpm/MailScanner-4.24-5.rp
m.tar.gz

You probably could get away with running:
Rpm -Uvh mailscanner-4.24-5.noarch.rpm

But running the install.sh is probably safer imho

M

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Solutions
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
http://www.search.ie/
Probably the cheapest ie's in Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)59 9139897
Fax. +353 (0)59 9139897

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Erik Jakobsen
> Sent: 06 October 2003 20:36
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: 4.24-5
>
> 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
> > http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
> > http://www.search.ie/
> > Probably the cheapest ie's in Ireland
> > Tel. +353 (0)59 9139897
> > Fax. +353 (0)59 9139897
> >
> >
> >>-----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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