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Once you understand BSD you have a hard time going back..  It's complete
and well documented.

Yes I do use Linux.  Debian, Fedora etc...  Humm let the distro just put
anything anywhere depending on the distro.  Very confusing.

Now if I can just finger out Mac osx, Darwin and fink.

Never a dull moment.

Julian, spend your time on MailScanner your very good at it.

Cheers...btb


On 1/2/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
      Sorry, didn't mean to insult the FreeBSD community. I didn't
      look hard
      enough for instructions on how to use the port, so
      misunderstood the way
      things are done on that platform. I'm a bit off a *BSD newbie
      and should
      have watched my words rather more carefully.

      Sorry about that, now I understand the how and why.

      Jules.

      P.S. Been testing some code today which should give you a
      nice surprise
      when it is released. It relies on the stupidity of bad
      people, and
      appears to work well so far :-)

      Drew Marshall wrote:

      > On 2 Jan 2006, at 18:45, Julian Field wrote:
      >
      >> Need to install Mail::SPF::Query
      >>
      >> Install the following:
      >> make install name=clamav
      >> make install name=p5-Mail-ClamAV
      >> make install name=p5-DBI
      >> make install name=p5-Net-Ident
      >>
      >> You need to make all the queue directories by hand and
      rename all
      >> the silly .sample files freebsd seems to use, which just
      makes life
      >> harder for you.
      >>
      >> Start by getting the modules installed.
      >> /usr/local/libexec/MailScanner/MailScanner -v
      >> shoulud produce everything installed except Mail::ClamAV,
      Net::LDAP
      >> and SAVI, they aren't needed.
      >> Then hunt /usr/local for every ".sample" file and rename
      them so
      >> they don't end in that.
      >> mkdir -p /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
      >> mkdir /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
      >>
      >> That should be enough to get you started.
      >>
      >> If you could document what you do and add it to the wiki
      at
      >> wiki.mailscanner.info that would be *REALLY* helpful for
      other people.
      >
      >
      > I have MailScanner running on FreeBSD 6 boxes with out
      problem. As I
      > understand (From the FBSD site) 6 is the current production
      release.
      > They regard everything else as 'legacy'.
      >
      > The 'silly' .sample files are there to stop any existing
      files being
      > automatically over written when the port is updated but if
      you make
      > sure you don't run make clean after installation, JP has
      kindly added
      > a load of text that describes how to rename the .sample
      files to
      > working copies (For the reports, and auto update scripts
      and the
      > wrapper scripts and a MailScanner.conf if this is a new
      install). If
      > you have MS running on another machine with a
      MailScanner.conf file
      > you would like to use, just drop a copy in to
      /usr/local/etc/
      > MailScanner (Make this) before you run the port
      installation and you
      > will find the port install will upgrade your
      MailScanner.conf
      > automatically as well. In this same directory you will find
      some  more
      > .sample files, which you can either remove the .sample
      ending if  you
      > don't have copies or diff them if this is an upgrade (Hence
      them
      > being installed as .sample) and delete them if not
      required.
      >
      > You will need to make the queue files as the port doesn't
      know which
      > MTA you will be using and you will also need to rename the
      start up
      > scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, where you will also find a
      start up
      > called mta.sh.sample which you can use to start your Exim
      or Sendmail
      > MTA.
      >
      > HTH
      >
      > Drew
      >

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