On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 17:31 -0500, Daniel J McDonald wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 23:17 +0100, Andy Loates wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > This is probably an idiots question but i've only just got my new MTA > > working 2 days before 0.84 was released an I dont want to mess up days > > of hard work by doing anything wrong. > > > > Basically to upgrade from .83 to .84 i should do the following: > [...] > > > > Is this OK > > usually that will work, although you probably need to restart freshclam > as well, assuming you ran daemonized. If you want to be absolutely > certain, perform these extra tasks (marked by *) > 1. Download new tarball. > 2. Backup existing /etc/clamd.conf & freshclam.conf files > 3. untar clamav-0.84 > 4. run ./configure with options > 5. make > 6. * stop MTA > 7. stop existing clamd > 8. * stop existing freshclam > 9. * cd to clamav-0.83 directory > 10. * su -c make uninstall > 11. * cd to clamav-0.84 directory > 12. su -c make install > 13. reload old config files overwriting newly installed ones OR edit > new > 14. config files with options to suit my set up. > 15. restart clamd. > 16. * restart freshclam > 17. * restart MTA > >
Thanks for the advice. All up and running. Shouldn't something like this be in the ClamAV docs? Andy _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
