Updating an adopted installation from 4.54

[Julian Field]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> 2008/6/17 Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>:
>   
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:27:47AM +0200, Glenn Steen wrote:
>>     
>>> That's pretty much how you upgrade the source dist too:-).
>>> Install the new one to its own directory in /opt, use
>>> upgrade_MailScanner_conf on the old file, copy over any modified
>>> ruleset files... stop MS, relink to the new install, star
>>> MailScanner... Did I miss anything? Don't think so:-)
>>>       
>> You missed that I don't know it as well as you do.  :-)
>>     
> :-)
>
>   
>>> Install the new one to its own directory in /opt
>>>       
>> Check.  (well, actually, I'm putting it in /appl/ms4.69.3; FHS be
>> damned.  :-)
>>     
> Doesn't matter as lon as the link is where it should:-).
>
>   
>>> use upgrade_MailScanner_conf on the old file
>>>       
>> "On the old install"?  It sounds like you mean "run the upgrade script
>> supplied with the new install against the old one".  Do you?
>>     
> Sort of. You should run the upgrade script from the new install,
> supplying the old MailScanner.conf as the old file, and the new
> MailScanner.conf file as the "rpmnew" one:-). I *think* the upgrade
> script will instruct you correctly if you run it without an argument.
> It needs the new "default" file so that it can tell what options to
> remove/add from the old one. It will print the new and improved
> version on standard output, so just redirect that to a file
> MailScanner.new, look through that one, so that it looks OK, then move
> it into place on the new install.
>   
It explains all this in pretty straightforward terms when you run it 
without any command-line parameters at all.
>   
>>> copy over any modified ruleset files...
>>>       
>> from the old install to the new one...?
>>     
> Yep.
>
>   
>>> stop MS, relink to the new install, start MailScanner...
>>>       
>> This part I *think* I get, but I'm not 100% certain how the Sendmail
>> 8.13 -> MailScanner link works.  Is it in fact enough if I make sure
>> that /opt/MailScanner points to the new install's home directory once
>> I'm done?  Is the only interface through the filesystem?
>>     
> Eh, all it means is that you need use whatever startup script to stop
> MailScanner, do "rm /opt/MailScanner" to remove the symbolic link to
> the old install, "ln -s /appl/ms4.69.3 /opt/MailScanner" to create the
> symbolic link to the new install... and then use the same startup
> script to actually start it running again.
>
> Hope that clears any confusion:-)
>
>   
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>>     
>
> Cheers
>   

Jules

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