languages.conf becomes zero bytes

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri May 27 08:10:12 IST 2005


I need to do an existence check on .rpmnew. If it doesn't exist then
just output the contents of languages.conf instead.

Thanks for pointing that out!

On 27 May 2005, at 00:02, Scott Silva wrote:

> Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>
>> I've just run an rpm upgrade to MailScanner on a couple of CentOS-
>> based
>> servers (one running 3.3 and one running 4) using
>> MailScanner-4.42.5-1 and
>> the net effect seems to be that languages.conf goes to zero bytes.
>>
>> Does the following line presume there's an .rpmnew file in the
>> 'en' folder
>> because the install hasn't created one and the .new that's created
>> is 0
>> bytes - so if this is mv'd into place as per the instructions all
>> hell
>> breaks loose in maillog!
>>
>> Here's the line:
>>
>> upgrade_languages_conf languages.conf languages.conf.rpmnew >
>> languages.new
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
> I was bit by this long ago, and haven't ran upgrade_languages_conf
> since. I suppose if I ever see the rpmnew file I'll try it again.
>
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