[CentOS] mail server best practices question

[Coert]

Coert wrote:
> 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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Sorry about that, false alarm.
It runs via amavis currently and its config is in /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf