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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Ryan O'Neil <ro...@clevelandnet.com> on 2005/10/28 20:07:52 UTC
new mail admin needing help
Hi everyone, I’m not really a new mail admin but I’m moving more into the
role of supporting and upgrading our software on our fedora server.
We currently have a fedora core 2 server running Sendmail, SpamAssassin
2.63.
I’d like to upgrade to the newest version of SA 3.1.0 I’m aware that some of
the user prefs and local.cf will need changed afterwards. The problem I’m
having is the instructions for the SA website say to use yum install
spamassassin but when I run that it tells me I have the latest version. Do
I need to manually download and install SA 3.1.0 using the alternate options
(perl makefile.pl etc).
Thanks for any help that is given.
Ryan
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Re: new mail admin needing help
Posted by jdow <jd...@earthlink.net>.
Fedora core 2 is probably out of maintenance cycle now. So upgrading
SpamAssassin may be a little difficult to do via yum without going to
FC3 or probably FC4. Of course, that has its downsides, too.
Save the configuration and Bayes databases you have now. (The Bayes
databases are the most awkward to deal with, sad to say.) Then force
a SpamAssassin update from the FC4 repository and pray.
Now, what I would do were it me is to place a similar setup on a
spare machine to what you have in actual service. Then perform the
update from FC4 repository and see what breaks. THEN if you can make
it all work repeat the process on the production machine, after taking
a COMPLETE backup.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan O'Neil" <ro...@clevelandnet.com>
Hi everyone, I’m not really a new mail admin but I’m moving more into the
role of supporting and upgrading our software on our fedora server.
We currently have a fedora core 2 server running Sendmail, SpamAssassin
2.63.
I’d like to upgrade to the newest version of SA 3.1.0 I’m aware that some of
the user prefs and local.cf will need changed afterwards. The problem I’m
having is the instructions for the SA website say to use yum install
spamassassin but when I run that it tells me I have the latest version. Do
I need to manually download and install SA 3.1.0 using the alternate options
(perl makefile.pl etc).
Thanks for any help that is given.
Ryan
RE: SA for Fedora Core 2 (was: new mail admin needing help)
Posted by Ryan O'Neil <ro...@clevelandnet.com>.
I did a quick check of the server at the console.
I was incorrect before it's core 1 not 2
I think one our name servers is 2
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Alexander [mailto:chris.alexander@crc.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 2:46 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: SA for Fedora Core 2 (was: new mail admin needing help)
On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, October 28, 2005 2:07 PM -0400 Ryan O'Neil
> <ro...@clevelandnet.com> wrote:
>
>
>> We currently have a fedora core 2 server running Sendmail,
>> SpamAssassin
>> 2.63.
>>
>> I'd like to upgrade to the newest version of SA 3.1.0 I'm aware that
>> some of the user prefs and local.cf will need changed afterwards.
>> The
>> problem I'm having is the instructions for the SA website say to use
>> yum install spamassassin but when I run that it tells me I have the
>> latest version. Do I need to manually download and install SA 3.1.0
>> using the alternate options (perl makefile.pl etc).
>>
>
> FC2 is supported by the Fedora Legacy project, so you need to add
> that repo to your yum config. But I don't think SA has been updated
> in Legacy. Instead, you should get the tarball from the SA website
> and build it using the indicated rpmbuild command. Then install the
> resulting binary RPM.
>
Alternatively, a search of rpm.pbone.net showed that SA 3.1 was
available.
FWIW, our plan is to migrate off FC and then upgrade at the same time.
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Re: SA for Fedora Core 2 (was: new mail admin needing help)
Posted by Chris Alexander <ch...@crc.ca>.
On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, October 28, 2005 2:07 PM -0400 Ryan O'Neil
> <ro...@clevelandnet.com> wrote:
>
>
>> We currently have a fedora core 2 server running Sendmail,
>> SpamAssassin
>> 2.63.
>>
>> I'd like to upgrade to the newest version of SA 3.1.0 I'm aware that
>> some of the user prefs and local.cf will need changed afterwards.
>> The
>> problem I'm having is the instructions for the SA website say to use
>> yum install spamassassin but when I run that it tells me I have the
>> latest version. Do I need to manually download and install SA 3.1.0
>> using the alternate options (perl makefile.pl etc).
>>
>
> FC2 is supported by the Fedora Legacy project, so you need to add
> that repo to your yum config. But I don't think SA has been updated
> in Legacy. Instead, you should get the tarball from the SA website
> and build it using the indicated rpmbuild command. Then install the
> resulting binary RPM.
>
Alternatively, a search of rpm.pbone.net showed that SA 3.1 was
available.
FWIW, our plan is to migrate off FC and then upgrade at the same time.
SA for Fedora Core 2 (was: new mail admin needing help)
Posted by Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com>.
--On Friday, October 28, 2005 2:07 PM -0400 Ryan O'Neil
<ro...@clevelandnet.com> wrote:
> We currently have a fedora core 2 server running Sendmail, SpamAssassin
> 2.63.
>
> I'd like to upgrade to the newest version of SA 3.1.0 I'm aware that
> some of the user prefs and local.cf will need changed afterwards. The
> problem I'm having is the instructions for the SA website say to use
> yum install spamassassin but when I run that it tells me I have the
> latest version. Do I need to manually download and install SA 3.1.0
> using the alternate options (perl makefile.pl etc).
FC2 is supported by the Fedora Legacy project, so you need to add that repo
to your yum config. But I don't think SA has been updated in Legacy.
Instead, you should get the tarball from the SA website and build it using
the indicated rpmbuild command. Then install the resulting binary RPM.
To avoid running rpmbuild as root, chown the directory tree /usr/src/redhat
to the user you want to run rpmbuild as:
chown -R randomuser.randomuser /usr/src/redhat
Then run rpmbuild:
rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0.tar.gz
Now install the binary that results:
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/spamassassin-3.1.0-1.i386.rpm
(Check the output of rpmbuild to see what binary RPM's are created and
available to be installed.)