Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-21 Thread mouss
Scott Silva wrote: on 8-20-2008 2:47 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following: All of these prelink errors suggest that your binaries were overwritten from a tarball installation. The easy fix is to erase ("rpm -e") the package and re-install it, likely upgrading to a newer package at the same

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 8-20-2008 2:47 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following: --On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:35 AM -0400 Blake Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I'm not quite sure how to interpret this to help me figure out my problem, there are changes rpm reports, does this mean that an RPM was instal

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:35 AM -0400 Blake Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I'm not quite sure how to interpret this to help me figure out my problem, there are changes rpm reports, does this mean that an RPM was installed but so was a source package? rpm -V -v dovecot ..

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:23 AM -0400 Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why anyone would knowingly run ancient versions of critical apps is beyond me. Stability. It's not uncommon for apps to be interdependent. Upgrading one can have unexpected consequences in another app.

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread mouss
Blake Carver wrote: Thanks Rod, So I guess my big question here is, how do I upgrade this sucker? I'd love to just use an RPM, but if this was originally installed via source will I mess it up? When I do rpm -qa | grep dovecot I get dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 BUT dovecot --version shows me a diffe

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/20/2008 11:35 AM, Stewart Dean wrote: > Because it isn't busted? Just because you don't *think* its busted doesn't mean its not... Of course, I'm not saying that running an up to date version completely solves this question - *all* s/w has bugs, its just a matter of when they are discovered

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Stewart Dean
Because it isn't busted? Charles Marcus wrote: Why anyone would knowingly run ancient versions of critical apps is beyond me. -- Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 845-758-7

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/20/2008, Roderick A. Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To get the latest and greatest you'll have to either build your own > RPM or do a tarball install. Or just use atrpms.net... Why anyone would knowingly run ancient versions of critical apps is beyond me. -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Blake Carver wrote: Thanks Rod, So I guess my big question here is, how do I upgrade this sucker? I'd love to just use an RPM, but if this was originally installed via source will I mess it up? When I do rpm -qa | grep dovecot I get dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 I think the default for RHEL 5. Cent

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Blake Carver
Thanks Kenneth On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The best you can do here is to query the database to see if the > files it knows about match those on the disk. For that, use "rpm -V -v > dovecot". That does a verbose verify and tells you what files it kn

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-20 Thread Blake Carver
Thanks Rod, So I guess my big question here is, how do I upgrade this sucker? I'd love to just use an RPM, but if this was originally installed via source will I mess it up? When I do rpm -qa | grep dovecot I get dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 BUT dovecot --version shows me a different # On Tue, Aug 19

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:22 PM -0400 Blake Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They say that they're not sure if it was installed Via an RPM or a source tarball. Dovecot is use MySQL. This is a RHEL5 server. There are RPMs listed as installed (rpm -qa) but I don't know how I can tell what

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
mouss wrote: Blake Carver wrote: I'm trying to help someone with Dovecot, and it looks like this one is a few versions behind. They say that they're not sure if it was installed Via an RPM or a source tarball. Dovecot is use MySQL. This is a RHEL5 server. There are RPMs listed as installed (rp

Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

2008-08-19 Thread mouss
Blake Carver wrote: I'm trying to help someone with Dovecot, and it looks like this one is a few versions behind. They say that they're not sure if it was installed Via an RPM or a source tarball. Dovecot is use MySQL. This is a RHEL5 server. There are RPMs listed as installed (rpm -qa) but I d