Order Of Installation

[Julian Field]

On 25 Jul 2006, at 16:07, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:

> Hi there –
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> I am going through the process of building a replacement mail  
> server for our department. The server in question is running
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> SuSE 10.0 Linux that has been ‘hardened’ via Bastille. The server  
> currently has ClamAV 0.88.3 and SpamAssassin 3.1.3
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> installed via the Easy Installation package. The procedure that I  
> have in mind to complete the installation is as follows:
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> Install from source Sendmail 8.13.7.

Can you not get this as an RPM? You are using an RPM of it now, so I  
would stick with that route if you can. If not, make sure you "rpm -e  
sendmail" before installing any new one, or else you will leave the  
RPM files database in a mess.

> Update ClamAV to the latest version.
> Update SpamAssassin to the latest version.

You should find you have the latest ClamAV and SpamAssassin anyway.

> Install MailScanner 4.54.6-1.
I'm about to release a new stable version (1st Sept hopefully) so I  
would advise waiting for that. Download about 4th September to ensure  
there weren't any problems with the 1st release.

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> Is there anything that I missed, or something about the procedure  
> that is wrong and should be corrected before proceeding?
I upgrade my Easy-install-Clam+SA package as soon as a new version of  
either package appears, so you can just re-install that over the top  
of your old version as new ones appear.

I would normally recommend doing MailScanner before Clam+SA rather  
than after, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

I would add Razor, DCC and RulesDuJour to the mix as well. You can  
get an easy-install package for RulesDuJour from www.fsl.com/support.

-- 
Julian Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk



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