Has anyone tried MailScanner on CentOS 7?
Peter Farrow
peter at farrows.org
Thu Sep 18 22:52:22 IST 2014
I agree,
Packages are the way to go...
On 18/09/2014 22:36, Glenn Steen wrote:
>
> Speaking as another +40 yo, with a (broad) unix/linux background,
> tarballs are fine if you like to tinker, but there is an element of
> "ease" that is highly compelling with "packaged systems"... I like
> Ubuntu on my desktop, Suse on my virtual apps and CentOS on my servers
> (at least... That's fairly easy to get the PHB to agree to)... The
> alternatives, in my world, are spelled windoze and bought appliances,
> not built from source distros;-)
> That was all fine for... The early days of linux...:-)
> Having said that, everyone has their own reality... And using
> MailScanner on for example CentoOS isn't a perfect fit when things
> aren't in your favorite repos, the SA isn't new enough on the latedt
> distro release etc... Hence this thread;-)
>
> Some of the things Phil tipped me anout (pull 29/30) seem to have been
> folded into the latest,so was less of a hassle than expected. Had to
> resort to CPAN for a very limited set of perl modules. Other than
> that, most things work ok, despite the shift from SYSV-style init
> scripts to systemd (that was... Interresting...:-). Working eith
> git/github turned out to be somewhat akin to working with any source
> code revision and control system, not that difficult, just a tad
> different;-).
>
> For the past couple of weeks, in running production on this setup
> (CentOS 7, standalone machine ( hp g7 IIRC, with lots of RAM... Used
> to be an ESXi host)). Works like a charm!
>
> Cheers!
> --
> -- Glenn
>
> Den 15 sep 2014 02:29 skrev "Mogens Melander" <mogens at fumlersoft.dk
> <mailto:mogens at fumlersoft.dk>>:
>
> Well,
>
> "Why did tarballs fall out of grace?" Sorry for the following ...
>
> When you delegate all the difficult stuff to the maintainers,
> of whatever OS you're running on your hardware, so you can
> focus on doing, whatever you wanted your software to do.
>
> Me, I'm on slackware variants, and nobody supports that, so I
> have to change/patch all those packages going out to you
> lazy guys, expecting software coming updated, specially for
> your choice of hardware/OS combination.
>
> Pretty much all important software, running on my servers, I
> have made build scripts, to compile compliant install packages,
> to install in the tool chain. Zenwalk not being maintained
> anymore, I'm moving my servers to Salix, going back to where
> I started. Slackware. There is no possible way to upgrade
> my old server/kernel with out sending someone to do it hands on.
>
> So, Zenwalk is out, and Slackware is back in.
>
> Basically, what I'm saying. I'm not alone, being older than 40,
> maintaining servers that has been running for more than 1780
> days, without a single reboot. Patches/upgrades are done online,
> on running production systems.
>
> And that's why tarballs are not in grace. They are used by the
> original linux distributions.
>
> This is my personal thinking, after a long night of hard drinking,
> just stumbling, noticing that lead comment:
>
> "Why did tarballs fall out of grace?"
>
> Peace.
>
> On Sun, September 14, 2014 21:13, Remco Barendse wrote:
> > So far, i did not manage to become friends with github (yet?).
> Hope that
> > sometime there will be a small (maintained) website with info on
> how to
> > pull the latest stable version from github and install from that.
> >
> > (Why did tarballs fall out of grace?)
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Randal, Phil wrote:
> >
> >> MailScanner - latest release plus updated updated TNEF.pm from Git
> >> (https://github.com/MailScanner/v4/pull/29) and my phishing
> filter fix (
> >> https://github.com/MailScanner/v4/pull/30)
> >>
> >> This patchset might be useful too, but I don't know for sure:
> >>
> https://github.com/MailScanner/v4/commit/0b59afc1dde177150331248179d64d12820512c8
> >> (uses IO::Pipe instead of IO)
> >>
> >> MailWatch - latest from Git (https://github.com/mailwatch/1.2.0)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Phil
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of
> Glenn
> >> Steen
> >> Sent: 08 August 2014 09:39
> >> To: MailScanner discussion
> >> Subject: Re: Has anyone tried MailScanner on CentOS 7?
> >>
> >> Hi Phil,
> >>
> >> As you may remember (or not), I used to use Mandriva for my
> servers (up
> >> until the Mandriva/Mageia split), so this sounds ... easy and
> >> straightforward:-). No mixing in CPAN when all else fails;-).
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7 August 2014 22:08, Randal, Phil
> <phil.randal at hoopleltd.co.uk <mailto:phil.randal at hoopleltd.co.uk>>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> OK, here's a fuller list of what I did to get MailScanner
> running on
> >>> CentOS 7
> >>>
> >> (snip)
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Phil
> >>>
> >> As said, this all seems quite straightforward, so ... I'll do that
> >> then:-). Which MW install did you use?
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of
> >>> Randal, Phil
> >>> Sent: 07 August 2014 16:22
> >>> To: MailScanner discussion
> >>> Subject: RE: Has anyone tried MailScanner on CentOS 7?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> No,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I didn't try them.
> >>>
> >> Ok, some fun and games to look forward to then:-).
> >>
> >>>
> >> (snip)>
> >>>
> >>> Only gotcha I had was forgetting to ensure that /etc/hosts had a
> >>> correct entry for the host in it. They joys of cloning VMs and
> >>> forgetting the little details.
> >>>
> >> Isn't it a bitch, progress:-):-). Do you use any prebuilt VM,
> or rolled
> >> your own?
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Phil
>
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