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 different #
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless, like he said above it may have been installed via a tarball.
dovecot --version
You should and see if there is more than one installed and
So --version shows just one version, 1.0.3 (pretty damn old)
So try a 'which dovecot' to see if you have more than one installed. And if
there is more than one look in /etc/init.d (for SysV-type systems - YMMV)
for a dovecot file and see which one it is calling.
'which dovecot' just gives me /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
Taking a look at /etc/init.d/dovecot shows me it's staring Dovecot
using /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
and
ps auxw | grep dovecot does show that's the one that's running
/usr/local/sbin/dovecot
so you're somewhat lucky: the software was installed (probably from
source) in a well known place (/usr/local). you can remove this by
looking at all dovecot and postfix files under /usr/local/. you can do
the same for other software. yum and rpm don't install software in
/usr/local/. you'll have to remove startup scripts as well.
once you've removed all the "old" stuff, you can install new packages
(if you have a development env somewhere, you can build recent SRPMs
instead of using the old available ones).
