[CentOS] mail server best practices question

[Benjamin Franz]

On 05/10/2010 11:37 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Am 10.05.10 13:01, schrieb Coert:
>    
>> Hello all,
>>
>> About a year ago I set up a mail server on CentOS using this howto:
>> http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html
>> I managed to add amavisd-new with clamav and spamassassin.
>> It runs very well, but it runs on CentOS 5.2, and if I try to upgrade,
>> amavisd-new and clamav break.
>>      
> Oh please don't say what happens. If you use amavisd-new and clamav from
> rpmforge (or from epel), they don't break when updating. And please
> don't tell me you ran clamav non-updated since CentOS 5.2 - it had
> several security issues since then.
>    
Actually, they do (break when updating, that is).

The problem is at least one of the packagers for clamd/amavisd-new 
blindly overrides the path to clamd.sock by overwriting the config file 
leaving the two out-of-sync (and so unable to function).

It is easily fixed by resetting the path - but you do have to watch out 
for it on upgrades.

-- 
Benjamin Franz