Upgrading to 4.24-5

Tue Oct 14 17:20:37 IST 2003

Same procedure as what's below.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Kevin Miller [mailto:Kevin_Miller at CI.JUNEAU.AK.US]
> Envoyé : Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:16 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Upgrading to 4.24-5
> 
> 
> I just downloaded the SUSE 4.24-5 tarball from the webiste.  
> I haven't run
> install yet, but did untar it.  I don't see a upgrade_MailScanner_conf
> script anywhere.  Is that installed by install.sh or do I 
> need to download
> that seperately?  Or was it just inadvertantly left out of 
> the SUSE package?
> 
> Thanks much...
> 
> ...Kevin
> -------------------
> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
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> Administrator
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> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:05 AM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: 4.24-5
> >
> >
> >At 20:49 06/10/2003, you wrote:
> >>Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> >>>Erik
> >>
> >>Hi Michelle.
> >>
> >>>If you are running RedHat download and install:
> >>>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/rpm/MailSc
> >anner-4.24-5.rp
> >>>m.tar.gz
> >>
> >>Ok.
> >>
> >>>You probably could get away with running:
> >>>Rpm -Uvh mailscanner-4.24-5.noarch.rpm
> >>>
> >>>But running the install.sh is probably safer imho
> >>
> >>That means, that I have to uninstall the running version ?.
> >
> >No. If you have a very recent version already installed, just
> >"rpm -Uvh"
> >the new mailscanner*noarch.rpm file. Then run
> >upgrade_MailScanner_conf and
> >follow the instructions for the RPM installation.
> >
> >
> >>I had the idea, the the upgrade file could do an upgrade, but
> >>understand, that I'm wrong in that.
> >>
> >>Thanks for your reply.
> >>
> >>>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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> >>>>
> >>>>/Erik
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >>/Erik
> >
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