HOWTO: Upgrade layer1 MailScanner

[anand]

sorry couldn't stop laughing actually.

I am getting that howto done now assuming that only clam needs update.

[anand]

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....751#post102751

Hope it helps

[equens]

What is the correct way to stop, start o restart mailscanner? I have update the Mailscanner.conf and I need to restart it. Thanks!

[anand]

Originally posted by equens
What is the correct way to stop, start o restart mailscanner? I have update the Mailscanner.conf and I need to restart it. Thanks!

killall MailScanner

You might need to repeat the above a couple of times before all the threads are killed.

To start mailscanner

/usr/mailscanner/bin/check_mailscanner

This will start the mailscanner.

[equens]

thanks

[anand]

Originally posted by equens
thanks

np

[casey]

Originally posted by casey
I upgraded successfully, but it doesn't want to use clamavmodule. It simply refuses to deliver messages. If I change it back to clamav it starts working again. How can I find out why it doesn't like clamavmodule?

Yes, Mail::ClamAV is installed.

I also had to install the following perl modules:
Net::CIDR
Inline

Then I had to change the following line in MailScanner.conf:

Monitors for ClamAV Updates = /usr/local/share/clamav/*.cvd

to:

Monitors for ClamAV Updates = /usr/share/clamav/*.cvd

Now it works with clamavmodule

[anand]

nice

[Dreamer]

Hmm, used this howto, but with the latest mailscanner from the homepage and got:

root@server [/usr]# /usr/mailscanner/bin/check_mailscanner
Starting MailScanner...
Can't locate Convert/BinHex.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/mailscanner/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 . /usr/mailscanner/lib) at /usr/mailscanner/lib/MailScanner/BinHex.pm line 44.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/mailscanner/lib/MailScanner/BinHex.pm line 44.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/mailscanner/lib/MailScanner/Message.pm line 47.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/mailscanner/lib/MailScanner/Message.pm line 47.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/mailscanner/bin/MailScanner line 52.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/mailscanner/bin/MailScanner line 52.

[Dreamer]

Fixed by:

/scripts/perlinstaller Convert::BinHex

Maybe the latest version requires it.

p.s.: teh version http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mails....29.7-1.tar.gz (4.29.7-1)

[chirpy]

You are quite right, Convert::BinHex is now required for a new feature. They've now listed the module at:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mails...all/perl.shtml

I'll update the HOWTO at the top of the post. Thanks for pointing it out

[Dreamer]

Thank you too for the nice how-to

[Sheriff]

Followed the main tutorial line by line but received two errors when trying to execute two of the commands

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

Received Error:

Can't do inplace edit: /usr/mailscanner.new/lib/MailScanner is not a regular file, <> line 2419

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

Can't do inplace edit: /usr/mailscanner.new/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions is not a regular file, <> line 5076

Any ideas?

[chirpy]

Hi,

You can ignore the errors, they're caused by attempting to search&replace the directory files in addition to their contents.

[Sheriff]

Cheers for the great tutorial. Although in the log files it shows Starting MailScanner 4.29.7. Mailscanner-4.29.7-1.tar.gz untared to Mailscanner-4.29.7.

This be correct?