On 5/10/2010 2:51 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > 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. 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com