Updating an adopted installation from 4.54

[Julian Field]

Kevin Miller wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:49:36AM -0800, Kevin Miller wrote:
>>     
>>> Welcome to MailScanner - almost as much fun as Rivendell!
>>>       
>> Everyone's Following Me!!! :-)
>>     
>
> Great minds think alike? <g>
>
>
>   
>> I meant to say: Slack 10.2.  It's in /opt/MailScanner.version with a
>> symlink to it from /opt/MailScanner.
>>     
>
> Hmmm - I'm not sure but it sounds like they did a source compile
> installation.
There's no such thing. MailScanner is written in Perl so it's compiled 
when you run it. There is no "compiled" version of MailScanner. The RPM 
installations use /usr/lib/MailScanner and /etc/MailScanner so as to 
follow the Linux standards. The "Other Unix" installation uses /opt by 
default as that is usually the best place to put self-contained packages.

>   My stuff lands in /usr/lib/MailScanner (and
> /etc/MailScanner of course) by default which I think is SOP for the rpm
> installs.  Could be wrong on that - never had to look too closely.  Not
> sure what the best practice is for that.  I'm sure someone will chime in
> on it.  This is a great group.
>
>
>   
>> Wow, there's a lot of stuff in my maillogs...
>>     
>
> Yeah.  Email gateways are busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking
> contest.
>
>  
>   
>> I saw something about that.  I'm strongly considering just building a
>> new dedicated machine (this one is shared) and forklift-upgrading...
>> would I need to bring training databases along for that?
>>     
>
> If you have a box or two to put it on, that would be the best way to go.
> It's saved my bacon more than once.  And yes, you definitely want to
> migrate the bayes databases over.  It's a wealth of data customized to
> your site.  Whenever I've had to build a box from scratch I just copy
> over /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf and the bayes database to the new
> machine.  There's a few minor edits in the .conf file (hostname and the
> like) but just drop the bayes files in place and you'll hit the ground
> running...
>
>
> ...Kevin
>   

Jules

-- 
Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store

MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help?
Contact me at Jules at Jules.FM

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
PGP public key: http://www.jules.fm/julesfm.asc


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.