Planning to upgrade from 4.50.15 to latest stable (4.60.8-1)

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jun 21 22:12:52 IST 2007


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One more thing. Note the bug-fixes in 4.61 to the auto-zip feature. I 
would not advise using the auto-zip feature with any version prior to 
4.61. The bug-fixes were quite important.

Julian Field wrote:
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> Chris W. Parker wrote:
>> OK thanks guys.
>>
>> I'm currently in the process of installing MailScanner (~30 minutes so
>> far).
>>
>> Julian,
>>
>> Regarding upgrading Spamassassin, is the best way to do that to download
>> the ClamAV/Spamassassin package on
>> http://www.mailscanner.info/downloads.html
>> (http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/install-Clam-0.90.3-SA-3.2.1.tar.gz
>> )?
>>   
> Yes. But make sure of 2 things:
> Install ClamAV the same way you did last time (i.e. don't let my 
> package install ClamAV if clamscan is not in /usr/local/bin).
> Make sure you don't have any spamassassin RPM's installed.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian
>> Field
>> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:56 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade from 4.50.15 to latest stable
>> (4.60.8-1)
>>
>> That's what I would advise too. Do MailScanner first, then SpamAssassin,
>> then everything else.
>>
>> Martin.Hepworth wrote:
>>     Chris
>>     
>>     I usually update MailScanner (it's easy to rollback), then the
>> 3rd party
>>     apps once I'm happy with MS...
>>     
>>     --
>>     Martin Hepworth
>>     Snr Systems Administrator
>>     Solid State Logic
>>     Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>     
>>      
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-
>>         bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Chris W.
>> Parker
>>         Sent: 21 June 2007 19:48
>>         To: MailScanner discussion
>>         Subject: Planning to upgrade from 4.50.15 to latest
>> stable (4.60.8-1)
>>        
>>         Hello,
>>        
>>         I'm planning to do an upgrade but I have a few questions
>> before I do
>>            
>>     it.
>>      
>>         I'm using the following document as a guide:
>>     
>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#upgrade_rpm
>>        
>>         1. Do I need to upgrade the 3rd party apps before I do
>> the MailScanner
>>         upgrade or after?
>>        
>>         1b. Or does the MailScanner RPM update the apps during
>> install on its
>>         own?
>>        
>>         2. Will 4.60.8-1 work with my installed 3rd party apps
>> so that I can
>>         test the upgrade (in case I need to do a rollback)?
>>        
>>         Here is the output of 'MailScanner -V'.
>>        
>>         [root at filter ~]# MailScanner -V
>>         Running on
>>         Linux filter.swatgear.com 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL #1 Thu Oct 27
>> 12:26:11 CDT
>>         2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>         This is CentOS release 4.2 (Final)
>>         This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>>        
>>         This is MailScanner version 4.50.15
>>         Module versions are:
>>         1.00    AnyDBM_File
>>         1.14    Archive::Zip
>>         1.03    Carp
>>         1.119   Convert::BinHex
>>         1.00    DirHandle
>>         1.05    Fcntl
>>         2.73    File::Basename
>>         2.08    File::Copy
>>         2.01    FileHandle
>>         1.06    File::Path
>>         0.14    File::Temp
>>         1.32    HTML::Entities
>>         3.48    HTML::Parser
>>         2.35    HTML::TokeParser
>>         1.21    IO
>>         1.10    IO::File
>>         1.123   IO::Pipe
>>         1.71    Mail::Header
>>         3.05    MIME::Base64
>>         5.419   MIME::Decoder
>>         5.419   MIME::Decoder::UU
>>         5.419   MIME::Head
>>         5.419   MIME::Parser
>>         3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
>>         5.419   MIME::Tools
>>         0.10    Net::CIDR
>>         1.08    POSIX
>>         1.77    Socket
>>         0.08    Sys::Syslog
>>         1.86    Time::HiRes
>>         1.02    Time::localtime
>>        
>>         Optional module versions are:
>>         0.17    Convert::TNEF
>>         1.809   DB_File
>>         1.11    DBD::SQLite
>>         1.50    DBI
>>         1.08    Digest
>>         1.01    Digest::HMAC
>>         2.33    Digest::MD5
>>         2.10    Digest::SHA1
>>         0.44    Inline
>>         0.17    Mail::ClamAV
>>         3.001000        Mail::SpamAssassin
>>         1.997   Mail::SPF::Query
>>         0.15    Net::CIDR::Lite
>>         0.48    Net::DNS
>>         0.31    Net::LDAP
>>         1.94    Parse::RecDescent
>>         missing SAVI
>>         1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
>>         2.42    Test::Harness
>>         0.47    Test::Simple
>>         1.95    Text::Balanced
>>         1.35    URI
>>        
>>        
>>        
>>         Thanks!
>>         Chris.
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