MS Upgrade 4.31.6-1 and new MailScanner.conf

[Patrick]

Lester,

Firstly I encountered this when I upgraded my MailScanner, however I did not
use the RPM version.
Secondly, I am a noob in Linux but I will still try to assist you and might
be wrong ( please advise if I am wrong)

When you do this

upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.rpmnew >
MailScanner.new

1. Did you see any feedback informing you about lines being added in?
2. Did you check to see if MailScanner.new had anything inside ? type less
MailScanner.new

if Mailscanner.new is empty then copying it over as MailScanner.conf will
result in an empty file as well.

I believe you could have missed a step somewhere.

Anyway, here is the instructions that I had followed to upgrade mine. I
believe its safe to use it on your setup as well.

/scripts/perlinstaller Net::CIDR                # installs stuff that you
don't have but needed

/scripts/perlinstaller Archive::Zip           # installs stuff that you
don't have but needed

/scripts/perlinstaller Compress::Zlib      # installs stuff that you don't
have but needed

/scripts/perlinstaller Convert::BinHex   # installs stuff that you don't
have but needed



wget
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/tar/MailScanner-install-4.31.6-1.tar.gz

tar -xzf MailScanner-install-*.tar.gz

rm -Rf /usr/mailscanner.new/

rm -Rf /usr/mailscanner.old/

cd MailScanner-install-*/perl-tar

tar -xzf MailScanner-*.tar.gz

mv -f MailScanner-*/ /usr/mailscanner.new

cd /usr/mailscanner/etc/

mv -f MailScanner.conf.new MailScanner.conf.old  # MailScanner.conf.new may
not exist, don't worry about it

cd reports/en

mv -f languages.conf.new languages.conf.old  # languages.conf.new may not
exist, don't worry about it

cd /usr/mailscanner.new/etc/

mv -f MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.new

mv -f virus.scanners.conf virus.scanners.conf.new

cd reports/en

mv -f languages.conf languages.conf.new

cd ../..

cp -Rf /usr/mailscanner/etc/* ./

mv -f virus.scanners.conf.new virus.scanners.conf

cd reports/en/

mv -f languages.conf.new languages.conf

cd ../..

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/bin/check_mailscanner

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/bin/MailScanner

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/lib/MailScanner/SystemDefs.pm

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/lib/MailScanner/ConfigDefs.pl

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/etc/virus.scanners.conf

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/lib/*

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/lib/MailScanner/*

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/bin/update_virus_scanners

../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.new >
MailScanner.new

mv -f MailScanner.conf MailScanner.old

mv -f MailScanner.new  MailScanner.conf

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g"
/usr/mailscanner.new/etc/MailScanner.conf



At this point you should edit MailScanner.conf and make any modifications
that you want to new settings added by the upgrade.





cd /usr

killall MailScanner

sleep 8  # then wait a few seconds for it to stop

mv -f mailscanner mailscanner.old

mv -f mailscanner.new mailscanner

/usr/mailscanner/bin/check_mailscanner

tail -f /var/log/maillog


Of course you use the above at your own risk, but it worked perfectly for me
on my CPanel RH9 set up.

The instructions were from forum.cpanel.net

Regards

Patrick

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