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RE: [milter-greylist] Issue with upgrading mg on Tru64 UNIX from 4.3.2 to 4.3.4

2009-12-11 by attila.bruncsak@itu.int

> > Was there any incompatible changes which I am not aware of?
> > Or it should just work as before and there is a bug on that 
> platform?
> 
> 
> A quick fix for you would be to configure --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localstatedir=/var
> 
> Here is the long story:
> 
> The previous configure script forced --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localstatedir=/var 

Thanks for the detailed information,
I will add this to my site specific configure script.

> 
> This oddity has been "fixed", with the result of a bare configure
> producing a milter-greylist that look in /usr/local/etc/mail and
> /usr/local/var/milter-greylist. 
> 
> There is a backward compatibility check for a config file in 
> /etc, hence
> the rough warning you get. The same test was forgotten for the dump
> file, which should not be a problem, as loosing the database 
> just cause
> extra delay.

Would be great to add the checking code.
The result is more than a simple extra delay,
milter-greylist is exiting with EX_OSERR.

> 
> What is really surprising here is that make install did not create
> /usr/local/var/milter-greylist (the install-db rule should do it). 
> 
> What does make install produces at yours?
> 

There is no surprise here, I am not running "make install" at all.
I am just copying the new milter-greylist binary through our firewall
from the internal development system to the external production
mail perimeter system.

Bests,
Attila

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