MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

Mon May 22 19:14:49 IST 2006

Yes, I could but it is quite ugly.  I am by no means fluent in bash but learned enough to make it work.
I have tossed around the idea of making a project out of it itself.  I brought it up to Julian once but since
he works with Defender MX, it was decided that could be a conflict of interest so I never went any further
with it from there.  What I really invisioned it becoming was a simple custom CentOS 4 install CD but I fall
way short on the knowledge to do this.  It currently weighs in at 757 lines but I am sure there are more
efficient ways of doing things.

Is there a desire out there from people that can program to start a project of this nature?  Here is a quick 
description of what I have the script doing.

Script is run after a bare install of CentOS4
Turns off un-needed services and runs a yum update.
Sets up hosts file
Installs all needed RPMS;
Postfix, spamassassin, clamav, caching nameserver, mysql, apache, php, webmin, ntp, snmp, mailscanner, mailwatch, logwatch and bitdefender are the major apps.
Configures all apps based on variables set in the beginning of the script.
Sets up iptables and allows only required ports.
Sets up rules_du_jour
Sets up Razor2

If all goes well, it will reboot with a fully functional Anti-Spam server.  The only things that need to be done is
login to Mailwatch and run spam rule updates and geoip download.  I have not automated that.  I have used the
script to build my last 3 spam servers in less than 20 minutes to a fully functional install and that includes the
CentOS 4 install.

I will clean the script of an hard coded info and post it later today or tomorrow.

Thanks
Chris

>>> sandrews at andrewscompanies.com 05/22/06 12:49 pm >>> 
Any chance you want to share you magic bash script?

Steve 

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Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

 I run the NOC for the company I work for and have 8 MailScanner boxes
running including the one for the NOC, one for our parent company and 6
customers.  I have put together a very large bash script that does a
full setup and install from a bare bones CentOS 4 install.  They range
from a couple hundred messages a day to ~65K a day.  I would be more
than happy to use the NOC server as a beta test bed.  I use it already
as the test setup for adding of new things or changes before pushing out
to the other servers.

And if you did decide to come to the US I could put you up if you wanted
to see Virginia Beach, VA.
Though coming to the US with as screwed up as it has become has got to
make you nervous. :)

Thanks for a wonderful "free" product.
Chris

>>> MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 05/22/06 12:11 pm >>>
On 22 May 2006, at 14:10, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Count me in, with the proviso that I only have one MailScanner box --  
> my production system.  There will be times that I won't be able to 
> roll out a beta: right before I go on vacation (!), and critical times

> during the school year.  The critical times are generally a
> couple of days, max.   I'm going on vacation for three weeks  
> starting early June, so I'll have to skip any June release.

That's fine. I was intending to skip the June release, do July and then
September. I have sometimes skipped August in the past anyway, as there
were no changes.

> Will release dates be the beginning of the month?  Beta on June 1, 
> stable on July 1, and so on?

Betas will appear as and when I release them, no strict schedule for
that. But probably a beta a week before each stable release as final
testing confirmation. Plus others as and when they are needed.

> I think that I'm one of the few sites running Solaris 10 with 
> MailScanner...

Some docs on that would be great, as the installation procedure is
somewhat different from other OS's, particularly in the "init.d"  
script areas. These could usefully go into the wiki. They don't have to
be too formal or wordy, most Solaris admins can suss it out given a list
of commands to type, on which they base what they actually do.

> PS: Don't beat yourself up about last month's release.

I try no to, it's just annoying. I try to do my best at everything I do
(and often get criticised for working too hard!) and screw-  ups annoy
me.

>   Your track
> record on solid releases has been outstanding over the 3+ years that 
> we have been using MailScanner.

Thanks, that's much appreciated. A good note on which to pack it in for
the day. Or at least to go home and carry on from there :-  )

>   As for the T-  shirt, you can bring
> it when you come to Maine to collect your free Lobster dinner (offer 
> good anytime).

I should put together a tour of the USA and stay with each person
("user") for a couple of days and then head on to the next one. That
would be cool, what do you think?

Cheers,
Jules.
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