MailScanner v5.0.0-8 beta

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Sun May 15 23:00:04 UTC 2016


Yes. I see I wasn't clear. My report was on upgrading from 5.0.0-2 to
5.0.0-8.


On 05/15/2016 03:57 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I have made numerous updates. It is currently on 5.0.0-8.
> 
> -
> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 15, 2016, at 6:54 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/10/2016 10:09 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>>>
>>> Debian
>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/beta/MailScanner-5.0.0-8.deb.tar.gz
>>
>>
>>
>> I finally got around to testing this one on Ubuntu 16.04. I ran
>> install.sh as an upgrade to 5.0.0-2.
>>
>> Everything seems OK, but I had a few anomalies. the output and log tell me
>>
>>> Upgrading /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>>
>>> Your old configuration file will be saved as:
>>> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.old.8026
>>
>>
>> In fact, it was saved as
>> ~/ms_upgrade/saved.8026/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.old.8026
>>
>> later, it says
>>
>>> I would advise you to check on any parameters which are different between
>>> the default new conf file and the conf file you just created, so that you
>>> find any parameters whose default values have changed.
>>>
>>>  diff -w MailScanner.conf.rpmnew MailScanner.new
>>>
>>> to check for any differences in values you have not changed yourself.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, neither MailScanner.conf.rpmnew nor
>> MailScanner.new was created anywhere. I only have the 'new files
>>
>> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf and
>> ~/ms_upgrade/saved.8026/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.8026
>>
>> and the old
>>
>> ~/ms_upgrade/saved.8026/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.old.8026
>>
>> It also says
>>
>>> NOTE! If this was an upgrade, edit /etc/MailScanner/defaults
>>
>> I know the script tells me
>>
>>>  WARNING - Make a backup of any custom configuration files if
>> upgrading - WARNING"
>>
>> but it would be good if an upgrade either didn't just replace
>> /etc/MailScanner/defaults. It would be better to either just create
>> /etc/MailScanner/defaults.new or backup /etc/MailScanner/defaults to
>> /etc/MailScanner/defaults.old before replacing it.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>>
>>
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San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan


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