MS/SA Upgrade

[Pete]

Christian Campbell wrote:

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>I'm about to upgrade both MS and SA.  The SA that is installed
>is the RPM version.  I've been told by many that I should really
>install SA from source, which I plan to do.
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>So, my question is, do I upgrade MS first or do I upgrade SA
>first?
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>MS 4.23 / SA 2.55.
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>Also, is there a way I can keep sendmail accepting mail into the
>queue while MS is offline and being upgraded?
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>Thanks,
>
>Christian
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>Christian Campbell
>Systems Engineer, Sair LCP, A+, N+, i-Net+
>Bruegger's Enterprises
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Personally i recommend see www.routier.org/ms.htm for a method of backup
service MailScanner stop
rpm -e spamassassin
then install SA from source and update all dependancies (see Julians
site for a list) then test etc
upgrade MailScanner

This is a 10 - 15min process, so pick a quiet time of day (you need to
allow for enexpected downtime) and upgrade. Make sure you allow your
self enough time to roll back the changes if you need to...