MailScanner v5?

[Jerry Benton]

William, 

This is the standard I am implementing:

/etc/mailscanner
/usr/share/mailscanner
/var/lib/mailscanner
/var/spool/mailscanner
/usr/bin/
/usr/sbin

With executables going into the proper bin or sbin. Right now everything is in sbin, which should not be the case unless the program should be restricted to root. An example would be Quick.Peek. 

The /opt/mailscanner will be used on the tarball installation. 

-
Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Jan 28, 2016, at 10:15 AM, William D. Colburn <wcolburn at nrao.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 03:08:47AM -0500, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> Ok, I am looking at the structure of MailScanner, and it just is not fun. For example, take the executable update_virus_scanners . For someone that doesn???t really know MailScanner, what program does that file belong to? This relates to my effort to restructure based on FHS. I am also trying to make sure everything is consistent across every distro. 
>> 
>> In short, I want to make MailScanner consistent and much simpler to manage and operate.
> 
> This isn't the dark ages anymore, running an rpm -qf of
> /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners will tell you.  But, from my point of
> view, the whole layout of MailScanner is just a disaster.  To get it to
> install at my site I have to remove /usr/local and make it a symlink to
> /usr.  And then it splats things all over the place like a Jackson
> Pollack install.  I couldn't even make the latest version install
> directly, I could only do the upgrade from a previous version to make it
> work.
> 
> What I'd like to see is a self contained directory, most packages seem
> to opt for /opt/PackageName, that I can move with an environment
> variable or symlink.  It would be extra nice if I could install it with
> rpm --relocate and have it work.  I would prefer to see everything---the
> /etc/ files, the /var/spool/ files, all the perl libraries---rooted in
> the base install.  Of course, if this is a wishlist, I'd like to add
> "stop using perl!!!" as well.  :)
> 
>> PS - If your comment is not constructive and follows the general theme of ???you???re stupid, Jerry???, please feel free to not comment. 
> 
> So much for plan A...
> 
> --Schlake
> 
> 
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