mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie

[Kevin Miller]

Worked a treat.
Since I have to do everything by hand anyway, it's actually a good time to avail myself of the conf.d directory so I in the future I don't have to keep merging MailScanner.conf.

Nice job on the new web site, BTW...

...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: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:05 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie
> 
> yes
> 
> -
> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > 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
> > --
> > 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 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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