On 05/30/2014 04:41 PM, S.Tindall wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 14:14 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
>> On 05/30/2014 10:46 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> On 5/30/2014 8:27 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>>>> So I removed it all again and reinstalled from RPMforge. Now it all works as expected. I never should have switch from RPMforge to EPEL for these programs.
>>>
>>>
>>> actually, IMHO, you should have switched. EPEL is much better
>>> maintained than RPMforge these days. the catch is, to do that switch
>>> cleanly, you woudl have had to completely uninstall the rpmforge
>>> version, disable rpmforge, THEN install the epel version
>>>
>> I did that, and still clam failed to filter mail. I do admin that I didn't delete "all" related files before installing from EPEL, ANsd I do also feel that EPEL is the better choice, so I guess I'll do it all over again.
>>
>> Emmett
>
> Way up in this thread, you mentioned updating amavisd-new from epel plus
> clam\* from epel. In addition to the user clamav vs clam issue, epel
> amavisd uses service clamd.amavisd, whereas the rpmforge amavisd uses
> service clamd.
>
> # rpm -q amavisd-new clamd postgrey
> amavisd-new-2.8.0-8.el6.noarch
> clamd-0.98.3-1.el6.i686
> postgrey-1.34-1.el6.noarch
>
> # service clamd status
> clamd is stopped
>
> # service clamd.amavisd status
> clamd.amavisd (pid 2860) is running...
>
> The use of clamd.amavisd actually simplifies the setup since you don't
> need to add group amavis to clam.
>
> # id clam
> uid=493(clam) gid=493(clam) groups=493(clam)
>
> Looking through my rpmforge > epel conversion notes, the other
> significant issue was to find folders/files with owner:group
> clamav:clamav and chown to clam:clam. I think you already corrected that
> problem.
>
> There are also several differences in the default rpmforge vs epel
> amavisd.conf, but I don't think any would stop it from working.
>
> I converted 3 mail servers to epel amavisd/clam\* about a year ago and I
> think all conversion issues have been resolved, but you never know. :-)
>
>
> Steve
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Hmm. Since EPEL provided and installed clamd and amavisd-new packages without error, I assumed they were the correct packages. I'll leave my system to use RPMforge, at least until the next time I update those packages.
Thanks for all the input.
Emmett
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