Mailscanner.rc start up script file location

[Hiram Gibbard]

Drew Marshall wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2008, at 14:42, Hiram Gibbard wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Drew Marshall wrote:
>>> On 18 Dec 2008, at 21:07, Hiram Gibbard wrote:
>>>> Yes. Thats the problem. I was originally using the ports (which I 
>>>> prefer), but since I'm using ClamAV, I was told (From someone on 
>>>> this list) to use the latest version of Mailscanner in order to 
>>>> avoid the issues I was previously having. I would hack a current 
>>>> mailscanner script, but I'm not that good at stuff like that. Do I 
>>>> have any other options?
>>>>
>>> Why don't you hack the port? You will need to edit the Makefile to 
>>> read the right version number and edit the distinfo file to reflect 
>>> the right version (And change the checksums and file sizes) you 
>>> should then be able to make and install as normal (I don't think any 
>>> of the dependencies have changed so you should be fine).
>>> While this is not the elegant solution the JP would create, I have 
>>> done this a couple of times quite successfully.
>>> Drew
>>
>>
>> OK. I am trying to hack the port. Could you tell me why I would get 
>> the supplied errors when running make install in the mailscanner 
>> directory:
>>
>> WHAT I DID:
>> changed PORTVERSION= 4.73.4 and left everything else the same.
>> Downloaded MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz from mailscanner.info
>>
>> [root at mail1 /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner/files]# md5 
>> MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz
>> MD5 (MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz) = 
>> c7590a86e4084891ff2107441f9b5fdc
>>
>> pasted the following into the distinfo file"
>> MD5 (MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz) = 
>> c7590a86e4084891ff2107441f9b5fdc
>>
>> also did ls -al on the download file:
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  100  8399013 Dec  1 10:48 
>> MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz
>>
>> pasted SIZE (MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz) = 8399013 into 
>> distfile.
>>
>> ran make install to get the following:
>>
>>
>> [root at mail1 /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner]# make install
>> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>> ===>  Found saved configuration for MailScanner-4.73.4_3
>> => MailScanner-install-4.73.4-1.tar.gz is not in 
>> /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner/distinfo.
>> => Either /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner/distinfo is out of date, or
>> => MailScanner-install-4.73.4-1.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner.
>> [root at mail1 /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner]
>>
>> why is it asking for MailScanner-install-4.73.4-1.tar.gz instead of 
>> MailScanner-install-4.73.4-2.tar.gz, which is what I put in there.
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> Have a look in Makefile and change PORTVERSION from1 to 2 that should 
> then work.
> 
> Drew

oops, sorry. i top posted last time, retry:

Same thing. i tried it with PORTREVISION=   1 with 2 and the original 
val was 3 and that all yielded the same results.

Hiram


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