Upgrade Exim in Cpanel Servers

In cpanel servers, upgrading exim mail server is easy with /scripts/eximup

/scripts/eximup                - Upgrade exim mail server
/scripts/eximup --force        - Force upgrade exim

root@server [~]# /scripts/eximup --force
Exim Setup Script Version 20.0
Fetching version information from http://updates.cpanel.net/eximinstall/version (RELEASE)....Fetching http://updates.cpanel.net/eximinstall/version (0)....@198.66.78.12......connected......receiving...100%......Done
Done
This is the exim 4.52 installer release number 7 for platform centos 3.7
db4-devel is installed and is the latest version.
pam-devel is installed and is the latest version.
openssl096b is installed and is the latest version.
openssl is installed and is the latest version.
openssl-devel is installed and is the latest version.
gcc is installed and is the latest version.
glibc-devel is installed and is the latest version.
compat-db is installed and is the latest version.
zlib-devel is installed and is the latest version.
rpm-build is installed and is the latest version.
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3 - Base
Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
No actions to take
Resetting Exim to cPanel Defaults and Installing the Latest Version
Method: Perl Expect
Testing connection speed...(this could take a while)...Done
Ping:7.860 Testing mirror speed and update status (cpan.erlbaum.net) using wget...(1940000 bytes/s)...Done
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:exim ########################################### [100%]
groupadd: group mailnull exists
groupadd: group mailtrap exists
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
...................................++++++
.................++++++
writing new private key to '/etc/exim.key'
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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:Email Address []:updatenow should only be run from upcp at /scripts/updatenow line 10.
Exim version 4.52 #1 built 28-Jul-2005 08:05:02
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2005
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (February 27, 2004)
Support for: iconv() PAM Perl OpenSSL Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch dbm dbmnz
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile autoreply pipe smtp
Configuration file is /etc/exim.conf.buildtest
`/etc/exim.conf.buildtest' -> `/etc/exim.conf'
Method: Perl Expect
Testing connection speed...(this could take a while)...Done
Ping:7.860 Testing mirror speed and update status (cpan.erlbaum.net) using wget...(1900000 bytes/s)...Done
Ping:8.681 Testing mirror speed and update status (cpan.belfry.net) using wget...(1810000 bytes/s)...Done
Ping:2.216 Testing mirror speed and update status (mirror.hyperian.net) using wget...(1190000 bytes/s)...Done
Three usable mirrors located
Mirror Check passed for cpan.erlbaum.net (/index.html)
commit: wrote '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN/Config.pm'
CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 08 May 2006 01:24:52 GMT
Mail::SpamAssassin is up to date (3.001001).
Net::DNS is up to date (0.57).
perlmod--Install done
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/spool/exim': File exists
Waiting for exim to restart..............finished.

mailnull 3736 0.0 0.3 6456 5060 ? S 01:30 0:00 eximstats
mailnull 7604 0.0 0.1 6740 1856 ? S 01:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 7611 0.0 0.1 6708 1820 ? S 01:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -tls-on-connect -bd -oX 465
root 7645 0.0 0.0 2792 1392 ? S 01:40 0:00 antirelayd

exim started ok
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
.................++++++
.....................++++++
writing new private key to '/etc/exim.key'
-----
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:Email Address []:exim: no process killed
Waiting for exim to restart..............finished.

mailnull 3736 0.0 0.3 6456 5060 ? S 01:30 0:00 eximstats
mailnull 7836 0.0 0.1 6740 1856 ? S 01:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 7845 0.0 0.1 6708 1820 ? S 01:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -tls-on-connect -bd -oX 465
root 7876 0.0 0.0 2792 1392 ? S 01:40 0:00 antirelayd

exim started ok
Install Complete
root@server [~]#

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