3rd time asking, HOW DO I UNINSTALL MAILSCANNER FROM FREEBSD????????????

[Koopmann, Jan-Peter]

On Sunday, May 14, 2006 11:38 PM Michael S. wrote:

> Ok, well I have installed many modules via ports including DCC, Pyzor
> updates to outdated packages etc and I have NEVER had issues with
> ports!  

Good for you. Nither have I.

> I have MailScanner up and running and it seems to be doing what's its
> supposed to be after struggling with it for about 2hrs. I had to move
> the mailscanner.sh and mta.sh to the proper directories since these
> were not copied properly. 

Then something is wrong with your setup. I maintain the port and use it on many installations and these problems have yet never occured anywhere. Maybe something is wrong with the latest version but up to this point no one complained. If you do a "make install" the port tells you exactly what it is doing. Maybe you put the stuff in a log and send it to me? Then I might be able to help.

Again: bsdpan- things on my installations only show up for manually installed ports (which might happen if you run install.sh from the MailScanner.tgz btw.!). I might be wrong but I suspect you are.

> Also, I believe im missing the crons, the
> ones that restart MS on the hour and do the updates to the virus
> scanners. Those I don't see anywhere.     

/usr/local/libexec/MailScanner

> to me. But the ports installation is a big mess and the installation
> is incomplete. 

Thanks for the compliment. Somehow I still think you messed something else up. Again: I have never had these problems and neither have the others. In fact a lot of problems people had with the original MailScanner package from Julian or rpms on other distributions have never occured to FreeBSD people thanks to the ports system. Your statements are contradictory (bsdpan and no manually installed packages) so I have to assume that you did something unwillingly or unknowningly that screwed your system up.

> Because Im not somewhat of a newbie at this, I pretty

Neither are we.

> much had a good idea what to do to get this going on FreeBSD but I
> already see the horror of having to do this again when upgrading,
> granted it will probably mess up the entire installation and will not
> work as instructed in your one page layout.        

Well. It does work here and at other sites. The port is probably used at a few hundred if not thousand locations and upgrading is as simple as possible (to my knowledge). I barely heard of any problems or horror experiences.

Unless you kindly provide more information on what you did and what the output of the commands were, I am not able to help you. And due to your tone I am not even sure I want to help you to be quite frank. Give me some more information and if there is a bug in the port I will of course fix it. Unless we find a bug please be so kind and at least rethink the possibility that due to the fact that you are up to this point the only person having these problems, it is much more probable that the error is on your side than in the port.


Kind regards,
  JP