Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
We are currently running SA v3.3.1 on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 and are
planning to move to Red Hat. I don’t have much experience with Red Hat
(or Linux in general). Could you point me to some tips and
documentation about installing and running SA on Red Hat?
FYI, on Solaris I install by downloading the
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.bz2 file and running the build procedure,
after installing the required Perl modules.
You should be pretty much OK following the same procedure - just keep in
mind that some Perl modules will have been installed originally via RPM,
and may be updated the same way on OS point releases or security upgrades.
So long as you stick to one method, and don't alternate using CPAN and
RPM to upgrade various modules and SA itself, you should be fine.
FWIW, I've mostly been happy with the packages from RPMForge (with the
exception of the first 3.3.1 package revision, which IIRC required
TextCat which I do not use). It also makes life much easier if down the
road, you install something from a package that requires some of SA's
dependency tree which you had previously installed from CPAN.
-kgd
