Thanks for reply i used (yum list installed 'spamassassin*') command and I got
Loading "installonlyn" plugin Installed Packages spamassassin.x86_64 3.1.9-1.el5 installed Does it mean it has installed via rpm? Thanks hateSpam Bowie Bailey wrote: > > hateSpam wrote: >> I haven't installed it. it was already installed. Do you mean I should >> delete >> the current spamassassin and reinstall new version? >> > > To upgrade SpamAssassin, you normally just install the new version on > top of the old one. But if you install with different settings or a > different install method than the old one, you can end up with two > versions on the system or pieces of the two in different places. This > can cause some really annoying problems. > > You can try to figure out where the old one came from. > > If it was installed via CPAN, this command will show the install dates: > $ perldoc -t perllocal | grep SpamAssassin > > If it was installed via rpm, you can look for it this way: > $ yum list installed 'spamassassin*' > > If neither of those two commands give any output, then it was probably > installed from source. You can poke around the system to see if the > source for the old version is still around anywhere. If so, you can > look in the config.log file to see what the configure command looked > like and build the new one with the same command. > > If in doubt, the safest thing to do is to remove the old one and then > install the new one from scratch via whichever method you prefer. If > the old one was an rpm, you can simply use the 'yum remove' command to > get rid of it. Otherwise, you'll need to dig into Perl's module > directories and the system binary directories (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, > etc) and remove it yourself. > > -- > Bowie > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/upgrad-spamassassin-tp23743952p23745271.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
