mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie

[Jerry Benton]

yes

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com
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> On May 15, 2015, at 12:33, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org> wrote:
> 
> Yeah - that's how I've always done it in the past when building a new box.  But time marches on I guess.
> So the solution is probably to rename /etc/MailScanner, redo the install and then do the manually do the upgrade_MailScanner.conf process?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> ...Kevin
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> Kevin Miller
> Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
> 155 South Seward Street
> Juneau, Alaska 99801
> Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500
> Registered Linux User No: 307357 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
>> Behalf Of Jerry Benton
>> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:40 PM
>> To: MailScanner Discussion
>> Subject: Re: mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie
>> 
>> I know what happened. I reread your email. You copied MailScanner.conf
>> ….
>> 
>> So … the install script checks for existing installations of MailScanner
>> by checking for which file? One guess … yes … MailScanner.conf.
>> 
>> So, the installer treated this as an upgrade.
>> 
>> Stay between the lines.
>> 
>> -
>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On May 14, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yup.  I already had clam and spamassassin installed but said yes
>> anyway figuring the worst case it would just overwrite something with
>> itself, and if something was missing it would take care of it.
>>> 
>>> I can post the install log to our ftp site if you like.  It'll have to
>> be tomorrow - quitting time now.
>>> 
>>> ...Kevin
>>> --
>>> Kevin Miller
>>> Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
>>> 155 South Seward Street
>>> Juneau, Alaska 99801
>>> Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500 Registered Linux User No:
>>> 307357
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]
>>>> On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:57 PM
>>>> To: MailScanner Discussion
>>>> Subject: Re: mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie
>>>> 
>>>> You are missing some dependencies. Did you use the install.sh script?
>>>> 
>>>> -
>>>> Jerry Benton
>>>> www.mailborder.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 14, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just tried installing 4.85.2-3 on Jessie and got the following at
>>>> the end of the process.  Apparently it didn't like that
>>>> /etc/default/mailscanner didn't exist.
>>>>> I created it manually.  Should I just rerun the installer?
>>>>> 
>>>>> ====================================================================
>>>>> == = Installing the MailScanner .deb package ...
>>>>> Selecting previously unselected package mailscanner.
>>>>> (Reading database ... 60187 files and directories currently
>>>>> installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb
>>>> ...
>>>>> cp: cannot stat '/etc/default/mailscanner': No such file or
>>>>> directory
>>>>> dpkg: error processing archive
>>>>> /root/Mail_Gateway/MailScanner-4.85.2-
>>>> 3/mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb (--install):
>>>>> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>> /root/Mail_Gateway/MailScanner-4.85.2-3/mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.
>>>>> de
>>>>> b
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Installation Error
>>>>> 
>>>>> The MailScanner package failed to install. Address the required
>>>>> dependencies and run the installer again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Note that Perl modules need to be available system-wide. A common
>>>>> issue is that missing modules were installed in a user specific
>>>>> configuration.
>>>>> ====================================================================
>>>>> ==
>>>>> =
>>>>> 
>>>>> One thing I did do, was copy the /etc/MailScanner directory from one
>>>> of my running servers so that I could easily update MailScanner.conf.
>>>> I don't know if this threw anything off - it was just the stuff in
>>>> /etc/MailScanner, no binaries were on the system yet...
>>>>> 
>>>>> ...Kevin
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kevin Miller
>>>>> Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
>>>>> 155 South Seward Street
>>>>> Juneau, Alaska 99801
>>>>> Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500 Registered Linux User No:
>>>>> 307357
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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