[CentOS] mail server best practices question

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Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 01:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 5/10/2010 2:51 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>      
>> Is this a result of having multiple uncoordinated 3rd party repositories
>> enabled during an update and flipping repositories as the version
>> numbering jumps (more or less expected behavior...) or are you saying
>> that a single packager flipped the format in an incompatible way?
>>
>>    
> This is using rpmforge/Dag (only). That is the only 3rd party repo I use 
> for my production systems. Updates of clamd has replaced /etc/clamd.conf 
> twice on me in the last year or two, each time breaking my mail system 
> until I fixed it. Most recently in April of this year.
> 

Should I be worried if the only clamd.conf on the mail server is in 
/usr/share/doc?

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