Re: Is it safe to recompile and install qmail after patching.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:49:15PM +, Eng. Ramy M. Hassan wrote: On a production environment is it safe to patch qmail source and make setup check once again. Yes. Any precautions should be taken ? You should shut down all qmail services before doing a "make setup", otherwise some programs might not be installable due to "Text file busy". \Maex
Re: Is it safe to recompile and install qmail after patching.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Eng. Ramy M. Hassan wrote: On a production environment is it safe to patch qmail source and make setup check once again. Any precautions should be taken ? Thanks. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: I've only had to do that a couple times, and the only precautions I took were that I made a backup copy of /var/qmail/bin. Just so that you know, I would also recommend doing 'make', stopping the mail service, then doing 'make setup check' -- *** Matthew H Patterson Unix Systems Administrator National Support Center, LLC Naperville, Illinois, USA ***
Re: Is it safe to recompile and install qmail after patching.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:49:15PM +, Eng. Ramy M. Hassan wrote: On a production environment is it safe to patch qmail source and make setup check once again. Any precautions should be taken ? Yes, stop qmail while doing 'make setup check', and make sure your patches don't break anything. Applying the big-todo patch onto a production environment is not trivial, for example. Greetz, Peter.
