Upgrade of MailScanner
Martin.Hepworth
martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Thu Jun 19 08:59:12 IST 2008
Jules
OK - this is basically the script I run...will prob be tomorrow before I can get this onto the wiki as I'm snowed under with "the day job" today.
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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 Julian Field
> Sent: 18 June 2008 17:58
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Upgrade of MailScanner
>
> Can you put that somewhere prominent in the wiki please?
>
> How about we try to script some of this and I provide it in
> the distribution?
>
> Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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