Peter Marshall wrote: > This is probably in a doc .. but since oyu suggesed it .. maybe you > coupld possible point me to the doc :) > > How do I upgrade spamassain .. and can I do it on my production > mailserver during the day ... (of course I will probably have to shut > off the service .. but .. it is not working that great since the start > of the week anyway).
How you upgrade depends on how you installed in the first place. CPAN? Source? rpm? Other package? If you installed from source, you just install the new version from source on top of it. SA will automatically delete /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf and re-install new ones. It will leave your custom site-config in /etc/mail/spamassassin alone. As for doing it mid-day and live, no.. I would not do that. I would also extensively review the UPGRADE file that comes with SA before doing so. Some configuration options have changed between 3.0.2 and 3.1.x. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.1/UPGRADE
