MailScanner 5.0.7-2

[Michael Abboud]

Cheers Shawn, that was it... along with:

*sudo touch /etc/MailScanner/Custom/test*

...was also needed.

Thanks all - I should be able to take it from here!
Michael

On 18/2/18 7:05 am, Shawn Iverson wrote:
> For the first error, if I were to venture to guess, your 
> /etc/MailScanner/CustomFunctions directory is present but empty.  I'm 
> looking at the preinst script, and it appears that the deb package 
> assumes a non-empty directory.  Try this please:
>
> sudo touch /etc/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/test
>
> and run the update again.
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Shawn Iverson 
> <iversons at rushville.k12.in.us <mailto:iversons at rushville.k12.in.us>> 
> wrote:
>
>     From which version are you trying to upgrade from?
>
>     On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Michael Abboud
>     <mabboud123 at gmail.com <mailto:mabboud123 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi List,
>
>         My first post, so please forgive any obvious blunders...
>
>         I downloaded *MailScanner-5.0.7-2.deb.tar*, extracted and ran:
>
>         *./install.sh --update*
>
>         ...on my:
>
>         Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>         Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
>         Release:        16.04
>         Codename:       xenial
>
>         ...server.
>
>         The *./install --update *command worked up until the last part
>         of the script which attempts to install the .deb package.
>
>         The install log says:
>         .
>         .
>         .
>         Installing the MailScanner .deb package ...
>         (Reading database ... 261497 files and directories currently
>         installed.)
>         Preparing to unpack .../MailScanner-5.0.7-2-noarch.deb ...
>         cp: cannot stat '/etc/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/*': No such
>         file or directory
>         dpkg: error processing archive
>         /home/sysadmin/MailScanner-5.0.7-2/MailScanner-5.0.7-2-noarch.deb
>         (--install):
>          subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit
>         status 1
>         initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to
>         socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
>         insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and
>         overrides
>         insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start
>         runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
>         insserv: Default-Stop  undefined, assuming empty stop 
>         runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
>         Errors were encountered while processing:
>          /home/sysadmin/MailScanner-5.0.7-2/MailScanner-5.0.7-2-noarch.deb
>
>         I'm wondering if the *.deb* package is somehow corrupt?
>
>         I also tried Mark's approach using the *Build.deb* script but
>         I couldn't get the build to succeed on my Ubuntu server.
>
>         Any thoughts for a newbie?
>
>         Best regards,
>         Michael
>
>         On 9/2/18 2:46 pm, Jerry Benton wrote:
>>         Sorry. Working on it now.
>>
>>         On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net
>>         <mailto:mark at msapiro.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             I notice 5.0.7-2 is not yet available at
>>             <https://www.mailscanner.info/downloads/
>>             <https://www.mailscanner.info/downloads/>>.
>>
>>             FWIW, I built the Debian package from a clone of
>>             <https://github.com/MailScanner/v5
>>             <https://github.com/MailScanner/v5>> using the
>>             Build.debian script and
>>             installed it on two different Ubuntu 16.04 systems via
>>
>>             ./install.sh --update
>>
>>             and had no problems.
>>
>>             --
>>             Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net <mailto:mark at msapiro.net>>
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>>             - B. Dylan
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