Overview of the Upgrade Utility

The do_the_upgrade.sh utility is made up of four shell scripts that, with your *.MERGED files, update the configuration and file directory locations of your MTAconfiguration, your configutil parameters, backup parameters, and your mboxlist database in your current version of Messaging Server system.

You can either run the do_the_upgrade.sh utility, or you can individually run one or more of the scripts that make up the do_the_upgrade.sh utility (make_mta_config_changes.sh, make_configutil_changes.sh, make_backup_config_changes.sh, and make_mboxlistdb_changes.sh).

If you want to upgrade an MTA relay machine from Messaging Server 5.2 to current version of Messaging Server, you only need to run the make_mta_config_changes.sh and the make_backup_config_changes.sh (described in Backup Configuration).

When executing either the do_the_upgrade.sh utility or any of the sub-scripts, be sure that neither Messaging Server 5.2 nor 6 2005Q4 is up and running.

To Run the do_the_upgrade.sh Utility

Steps

1. Shut down both the 5.2 and the current version of Messaging Servers.

2. Run the utility:

   # sh /var/tmp/UpgradeMsg5toMsg6.ScratchDir/do_the_upgrade.sh

   After running the do_the_upgrade.sh script, you can either continue to reference your 5.2 partition paths (though you will not be able to remove your Messaging Server 5.2 server-root directory) or you can manually move the 5.2 store partitions to the appropriate current version of Messaging Server directory location. You should perform this step prior to restarting Messaging Server.