[CentOS] mail server best practices question

Mon May 10 20:45:56 UTC 2010
Benjamin Franz <jfranz at freerun.com>

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.

-- 
Benjamin Franz