Re: missing ms-init script in MailScanner 5.4.4

I would be interested. I did get the clue from Shawn to use the debian 
download which worked. Still cleaning up a few details so I would 
appreciate the steps you took so I can compare to what I've done. thanks 
- Dean Guenther

On 9/20/22 7:26 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I did the same migration. If you are interested, I copied / paste'd 
> each and every command that was needed for the install into a script 
> based on installations others on and off the list published. I 
> wouldn't run it blindly as a script but it might save you a ton of 
> time trying to find out where everything is. It took me several weeks 
> to figure it all out.
>
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Dean guenther wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm in the process of moving from my old MailScanner 4.85.2 
>> installation on CentOS
>> 6.7 to a fresh install of MailScanner 5.4.4 on ubuntu 20.04. I've run 
>> the MailScanner install.sh on ubuntu but the ms-init script is 
>> missing from
>> /etc/init.d so I can't start MailScanner. At least thats where I was 
>> presuming I should find ms-init.
>> Being new to ubuntu, things may be different to what I'm used to with 
>> CentOS.
>>
>> I have already installed dovecot and ClamAV from the default ubuntu 
>> repository. And
>> the MailScanner 5.4.4 install.sh did put the MailScanner config files 
>> into
>> /etc/MailScanner as expected. So I've modified the /etc/MailScanner 
>> configs to
>> pretty much match the options I had set under the old MailScanner 
>> 4.85.2.
>> But now I can't start MailScanner because the /etc/init.d/ms-init is 
>> missing. I
>> considered copying ms-init out of the build directory
>> usr/lib/MailScanner/init but I'm wondering even if I do that, are 
>> there other things
>> that did not get copied with the install.sh because ms-init is missing?
>>
>> When I did the install-sh it went through filling dependencies just 
>> fine. With one
>> exception it was unable to build Mail::ClamAV. I posted at github and
>> @shawniverson mentioned that Mail::ClamAV is no longer needed by 
>> MailScanner so it may not
>> be a concern.
>>
>> After running install.sh I also did a /usr/sbin/ms-perl-check and 
>> there were no missing
>> dependencies that I could see other than Mail::ClamAV.
>>
>> There was also a warning when I ran install.sh it said
>>
>> cp: cannot stat './var': No such file or directory
>>
>> But there is no var in the build directory. Perhaps its just a warning??
>>
>> So, how do I safely copy ms-init to /etc/init.d and also, how do I 
>> know if there are other things missing that the install.sh did
>> not copy?
>>
>> thanks - Dean Guenther
>>
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