Upgrade of MailScanner

Wed Jun 18 11:44:06 IST 2008

Slight variation..

1. login to the mailscanner computer and download the latest version of the software

2 .extract the archive with tar zxf MailScanner-install-<version>.tar.gz

3 cd to the directory extracted and su to root

4 run the installer which will put the files onto /opt/MailScanner-<version> an d install ant perl modules requires with ./install.sh

5 cd to the newly created directory in /opt and copy the rule files etc over from the running system:

6 cd /opt/MailScanner-<version>

7 cd ../lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions

8 cp /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MailWatch.pm .

9 cd ../../../etc/rules

10 cp /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules/*.rules .

11 cd ../reports/en

12 cp /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/en/inline.sig.* .

13 cd ../../

14 cp /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf .

15 finally merge in the existing settings file with the new one using the following:

16 ../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf ./MailScanner.conf > MailScanner.new

17 mv MailScanner.conf MailScanner.old

18 mv MailScanner.new MailScanner.conf

The last stage is to run the new version rather than the old:

19 cd /opt

20 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/MailScanner.sh stop (or whatever you use to stop)

21 rm MailScanner

22 ln -s MailScanner-<newversion> MailScanner

23 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/MailScanner.sh start

Steps 19-23 are the only time when you need to stop MS, therefore downtime is pretty minimal

Backout if things go wrong is easy - redo 19-23 using the oldversion of MS rather than new version.
--
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 Craig Retief
> Sent: 18 June 2008 11:07
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Upgrade of MailScanner
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:02 +0200, Velda Midanovic wrote:
>
> 	I have a following combination : RH4, MailScanner
> 4.58.9, ClamAV, SmapAssassin, all working very well together.
>
> 	The problem is that I get quite some backscatter on
> some of my users, and since watermarking may solve at least
> some of my problems, I plant to use it.
>
> 	Alas!!!
>
> 	My version of MailScanner does not support watermarking....
>
> 	So I should upgrade. BUT I installed all from TAR
> packages. So how do I do it?
>
>
>
> What I usually do is the following after downloading the
> tarball to your server:
>
> 1.    disable the check_mailscanner command in crontab with #
> 2.    move the softlink in /opt like this :
>         [root at host]# mv /opt/MailScanner /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9
> 3.    unpack Jules's TAR package
> 4.    Run the install.sh script
> 5.    change directory to /opt/MailScanner/etc and run the
> following command:
>         [root at host]# ../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf
> /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9/etc/MailScanner.conf
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf > MailScanner.new
>         [root at host]# vi MailScanner.new (here I check that
> all the settings are still correct and see what new toys
> Jules added to the mix)
>         [root at host]# mv MailScanner.conf MailScanner.old
>         [root at host]# mv MailScanner.new MailScanner.conf
> 6.    change directory to reports/en and run the following command:
>         [root at host]# ../../../bin/upgrade_languages_conf
> /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9/etc/reports/en/languages.conf
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/en/languages.conf > languages.new
>         [root at host]# mv languages.conf languages.old
>         [root at host]# mv languages.new languages.conf
>         [root at host]# cp
> /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9/etc/reports/en/*.txt . (note the dot)
>         [root at host]# cp
> /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9/etc/reports/en/*.html . (note the
> dot) 7. If using MailWatch, copy the SQLBlackWhiteList.pm and
> MailWatch.pm files to the new install like this:
>         [root at host]# cd
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/
>         [root at host]# cp
> /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/SQLBl
> ackWhiteList.pm
> /opt/MailScanner_4.58.9/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/Mail
> Watch.pm . (note the dot)
> 8.   That shoudl be about all, then you can run the follwing
> command and monitor the log file for any errors:
>     [root at host]# /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner; tail
> -f /var/log/maillog 9. Re-enable the cronjob if all went well
>
>
> If I missed a step someone might like to point it out.
>
> Cheers
>
> Craig
>
>
>
>
> 	Here is my output of #MailScanner –v :
>
> 	This is MailScanner version 4.58.9
>
> 	Module versions are:
>
> 	1.00    AnyDBM_File
>
> 	1.16    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
>
> 	0.90    Filesys::Df
>
> 	1.35    HTML::Entities
>
> 	3.54    HTML::Parser
>
> 	2.37    HTML::TokeParser
>
> 	1.21    IO
>
> 	1.10    IO::File
>
> 	1.123   IO::Pipe
>
> 	1.71    Mail::Header
>
> 	3.05    MIME::Base64
>
> 	5.420   MIME::Decoder
>
> 	5.420   MIME::Decoder::UU
>
> 	5.420   MIME::Head
>
> 	5.420   MIME::Parser
>
> 	3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
>
> 	5.420   MIME::Tools
>
> 	0.10    Net::CIDR
>
> 	1.08    POSIX
>
> 	1.77    Socket
>
> 	1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
>
> 	0.18    Sys::Syslog
>
> 	1.86    Time::HiRes
>
> 	1.02    Time::localtime
>
>
>
> 	Optional module versions are:
>
> 	0.17    Convert::TNEF
>
> 	1.814   DB_File
>
> 	1.12    DBD::SQLite
>
> 	1.50    DBI
>
> 	1.15    Digest
>
> 	1.01    Digest::HMAC
>
> 	2.36    Digest::MD5
>
> 	2.10    Digest::SHA1
>
> 	0.44    Inline
>
> 	missing Mail::ClamAV
>
> 	3.001008        Mail::SpamAssassin
>
> 	1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
>
> 	0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
>
> 	1.24    Net::IP
>
> 	0.57    Net::DNS
>
> 	0.31    Net::LDAP
>
> 	1.94    Parse::RecDescent
>
> 	missing SAVI
>
> 	2.56    Test::Harness
>
> 	0.47    Test::Simple
>
> 	1.95    Text::Balanced
>
> 	1.35    URI
>
>
>
> 	Pllease help.
>
> 	Velda
>
>
>
>
>
> 	--
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> 	dangerous content by MailScanner
> <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is
> 	believed to be clean.
>
>

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