On Tuesday 24 July 2001 18:43, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a box running great with mdk 7.2 2.2.19-4mdksecure.. and I want to > add Amavis antivirus support to it for all mail, incoming, outgoing and > relaying... > > now of the methods available (according to amavis's postfix > documentation...) the easiest and most efficient way of doing this is to > upgade to the newer version, as it allows external programs to inspect > content... > > it requires at least: > > Postfix snapshot 20000529 > > according to rpm -q,, I am currently using postfix-19991231_pl08-5mdk > > which from the look of it is not new enough to allow this... > > I looked on rpmfind.net and found these: > postfix-20010228-6mdk.i586.rpm > postfix-20010228-6mdk.src.rpm > > I went though alot of hassle trying to upgrade sendmail in the past and > actually broke two installs due to it.. (caused alot of hassles the worst > of which was causing pppd to die continiously... so I reloaded and switched > to postfix) > > so I am wonding if I am going to break my 7.2 install by trying either of > these two rpms??? > > if I download the src rpm and rebuild it, would that be better for what I > want and cause less hassles? > > I have a 900mhz AMD system. > > kindest regards > > > Frank Actually, you cannot install the binary at all. It requires RPM4 and a different glibc than you have. You might try to download the source, become root and install the source with rpm -ivh, then rpm --rebuild (source file name). If that works, you should have a working postfix; if not, you have broken nothing. Civileme
