Moving from Solaris to Red Hat

["Rosenbaum, Larry M." <ro...@ornl.gov>]

We are currently running SA v3.3.1 on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 and are planning to move to Red Hat.  I don't have much experience with Red Hat (or Linux in general).  Could you point me to some tips and documentation about installing and running SA on Red Hat?

FYI, on Solaris I install by downloading the Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.bz2 file and running the build procedure, after installing the required Perl modules.

Thanks,
Larry

Re: Moving from Solaris to Red Hat

[Kris Deugau <kd...@vianet.ca>]

Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> We are currently running SA v3.3.1 on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 and are 
> planning to move to Red Hat.  I don’t have much experience with Red Hat 
> (or Linux in general).  Could you point me to some tips and 
> documentation about installing and running SA on Red Hat?
> 
>  
> 
> FYI, on Solaris I install by downloading the 
> Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.bz2 file and running the build procedure, 
> after installing the required Perl modules.

You should be pretty much OK following the same procedure - just keep in 
mind that some Perl modules will have been installed originally via RPM, 
and may be updated the same way on OS point releases or security upgrades.

So long as you stick to one method, and don't alternate using CPAN and 
RPM to upgrade various modules and SA itself, you should be fine.

FWIW, I've mostly been happy with the packages from RPMForge (with the 
exception of the first 3.3.1 package revision, which IIRC required 
TextCat which I do not use).  It also makes life much easier if down the 
road, you install something from a package that requires some of SA's 
dependency tree which you had previously installed from CPAN.

-kgd

Re: Moving from Solaris to Red Hat

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>]

On 11.08.10 13:52, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> We are currently running SA v3.3.1 on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 and are
> planning to move to Red Hat.  I don't have much experience with Red Hat
> (or Linux in general).  Could you point me to some tips and documentation
> about installing and running SA on Red Hat?
> 
> FYI, on Solaris I install by downloading the
> Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.bz2 file and running the build procedure,
> after installing the required Perl modules.

If you can install this SA version by using RPM or other RedHat's tools, I
recommend you using this way. It's much better maintainable and redhat's
people will take care of dependencies for you.

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