HOWTO: Upgrade layer1 MailScanner

[anand]

Originally posted by hostseeker
Okay I did the Clam AV update and how have 0.67-1

The only difference for me was that existing clamscan 0.60 was located at /usr/bin/clamscan and not /usr/bin/local/clamscan

Perhaps because I have RHE? Anyway, I renamed clamscan to clamscanold before I did the make install and it worked fine.

Thank you anand!

np

[rs-freddo]

ClamAV Version 0.68 has been released.
"The changes in this release are as follows:
This version fixes a crash with some RAR archives generated by the
Bagle worm. A few important fixes have been backported from CVS."

[damainman]

Originally posted by rs-freddo
ClamAV Version 0.68 has been released.
"The changes in this release are as follows:
This version fixes a crash with some RAR archives generated by the
Bagle worm. A few important fixes have been backported from CVS."

to many updates lol... i wonder if cpanel is ever going to start upgrading their mailscanner package

[damainman]

Okay when i put in this line:

perl -pi -e "s/\/opt\/MailScanner/\/usr\/mailscanner/g" /usr/mailscanner.new/lib/*

I get the following error:

Can't do inplace edit: /usr/mailscanner.new/lib/MailScanner is not a regular file, <> line 2415.


I'm afraid to continue with the process... can someone advise?

[chirpy]

You can safely ignore that message. It's complaining because it's trying to do a search & replace on the directory file.

[damainman]

thank you, i wasn sure if i should move on, or start from the beggining or what.. but thanks for ur reply

[damainman]

Okay i edited the "/usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
" file, and procedded to the next steps.

Now when i enter :/usr/mailscanner/bin/check_mailscanner

I get this error:

Cannot open config file /usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf, No such file or directory at /usr/mailscanner/lib/MailScanner/Config.pm line 535.
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My mailscanner.conf file disapeered? When i go back to edit it.... it doesn't exist anymore... what happened to it?

Also i looked in the DIR, and found: MailScanner.conf.new* ...

[casey]

You must have forgotten this step:
mv -f MailScanner.new MailScanner.conf

Do that and then try it again.

[damainman]

i don't believe i missed that stepp, but i'll try just in case.. but which directory should i be in when i do that? THank you for your reply.

- I looked in the mailscanner.conf.new ... and the configurations are not the same as when i edited mailscanner.conf before i killed mailscanner. For example in the conf.. for usergroups and stuff.. the previous one.. had something in the "Run as User", but in the mailscanner.conf.new... its blank next to it...... would it just be wise to start again from the beggining?

[casey]

Try
cd /usr/mailscanner/etc/
and then do these steps again:
../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf
../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.new > MailScanner.new
mv -f MailScanner.conf MailScanner.old
mv -f MailScanner.new MailScanner.conf

[damainman]

okay, it started now.. however i looked in mailscanner.conf and noticed its just a blank file...

edit:

Okay i decided to do these once more:

../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf
../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.new > MailScanner.new

and now it seems to be creating the conf file...... i'll update this post when its done, to see what happens..

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Update:

Okay i'm looking in the config file, and it looks like the setting that were previously put in from layer1, is gone. For example, now the conf file has no virus scanner set, and run as user, and run as group are blank ... damn lol... i was planning to sleep early tonight.. i think i'm just going to reinstall and upgrade everything from scratch....

[anand]

Originally posted by damainman
okay, it started now.. however i looked in mailscanner.conf and noticed its just a blank file...

edit:

Okay i decided to do these once more:

../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf
../bin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.new > MailScanner.new

and now it seems to be creating the conf file...... i'll update this post when its done, to see what happens..

===============================
Update:

Okay i'm looking in the config file, and it looks like the setting that were previously put in from layer1, is gone. For example, now the conf file has no virus scanner set, and run as user, and run as group are blank ... damn lol... i was planning to sleep early tonight.. i think i'm just going to reinstall and upgrade everything from scratch....

If you need the default conf file from layer1, just download the tar.gz file, extract it, extract the mailscanner package inside it, you will find the conf file. Place it inside /usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf. Now you can run updates.

[anand]

And if you plan to go by scratch install, go by the steps of my howto posted in another thread. it was for a different version of clam, though you won;t have trouble to change it to the new version. Incase you need help, just let me know. I will make the steps and post.

[bgfweb]

Originally posted by anand
And if you plan to go by scratch install, go by the steps of my howto posted in another thread. it was for a different version of clam, though you won;t have trouble to change it to the new version. Incase you need help, just let me know. I will make the steps and post.

make the steps for an upgrade please. thanks

[anand]

Originally posted by bgfweb
make the steps for an upgrade please. thanks

hahaha atleast try it once. My howto posted earlier wasn't that bad also

Meanwhile i will see what i can do.