Changin MX machine to it's own, recommendations please...

[Rob Morin]

If i remove the apt-get packages of SA & Clamav and then use the install 
from MS, how to i update, just re install again? will it over write my 
conf files and settings?

Thanks.

Rob Morin
Dido InterNet Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444



Scott Silva wrote:
> Rob Morin spake the following on 4/25/2006 10:45 AM:
>   
>> ok so this is where i am at, so far...
>>
>> installed postfix via apt-get V 2.1.5-9
>> install SA & Clamav via apt-get V3.0.3 & 0.84 respectively...
>>
>> installed MS via install.sh
>>
>> postfix complained about owners of queue dirs so i turned of chroot ??
>>
>> modified postfix main.cf as instructed in docs to make it work with MS
>>
>> added a test domain to postfixe's transport and relay_domains, not sure
>> if this is correct as i need an email to come in get scanned and spit it
>> out to the pop machine for the users.... But it seems to work....
>>
>> started MS with /opt/Mailscanner/bin/check_mailscanner
>>
>> Sent a test email and when i received it a final destination all seemed
>> ok, i saw the headers in the email saying it was scanned by that new
>> machine....
>>
>>
>> I could not figure out how to stop MS as no init.d script is used
>> because i installed form source, so to speak... so i made a simply
>> script to kill the MS PID and then restart via check_mailscanner
>>
>>
>> is there anything else i am missing other than configuring rules du jour
>> now to get my stuff for SA?
>>
>> Any comments greatly appreciated....
>>
>> Thanks to all and have a great day(or evening depending on where you are)
>>
>> :)
>>
>>     
> You wanted to install MailScanner from source to be current sooner, but you
> installed old versions of ClamAV and Spamassassin by apt-get. I would think
> you would want all of it current, especially since spamassassin is now at
> 3.1.1 and clamav is at 0.86.1. Maybe you should use the install-clam-SA
> tarball also. Just my 2 cents ;-)
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