MailScanner 5.0.7-2

[Shawn Iverson]

Thanks for the feedback, I will flag this for a fix.

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Michael Abboud <mabboud123 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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> 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>
>> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I notice 5.0.7-2 is not yet available at
>>>> <https://www.mailscanner.info/downloads/>.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I built the Debian package from a clone of
>>>> <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.
>>>>
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>>>> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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>>
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765-932-3901 x1171
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