complaint from 4.68.4 (now 4.68.5)

[Julian Field]

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Julian Field wrote:
>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>> Julian,
>>>
>>> I just installed and tested 4.68.5-1.  Slightly different result, but
>>> more or less the same complaint:
>>>
>>> (65)> ./MailScanner --lint
>>> Trying to setlogsock(native)
>>> Read 814 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>>> Read 4587 hostnames from the phishing blacklist
>>> Config: calling custom init function IPBlock
>>> Could not use Custom Function code
>>> MailScanner::CustomConfig::InitIPBlock, it could not be "eval"ed. Make
>>> sure the module is correct with perl -wc at
>>> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Config.pm line 873
>> You need to take a look at InitIPBlock in CustomConfig.pm, you have
>> something wrong there.
>
> Julian,
> Sorry to be dense here, but I don't how it could be me unless I mucked
> up the data file (and I don't see anything there).  I haven't
> changed anything regarding IPBlock in a while, except for the actual
> /etc/MailScanner/IPBlock.conf data file.  Is there any particular
> requirement on the white space in this file, eg:
>
>    127.0.0.1[something]100000
>
> Does [something] have to be a tab, or can it be any whitespace? My 
> only other twiddles regarding IPBlock are in MailScanner.conf:
>
>    Always Looked Up Last = &IPBlock
>
> And these minor changes to CustomConfig.pm:
>
>    (176)> diff CustomConfig.pm.orig CustomConfig.pm
>    777c777
>    <   $AccessDB = "/etc/mail/access.db";
>    ---
>    >   $AccessDB = "/etc/mail/db/access.db";
>    1703c1703
>    <       $AccessDB = "/etc/mail/access.db";
>    ---
>    >       $AccessDB = "/etc/mail/db/access.db";
>
> And BTW, shouldn't line 300 of CustomConfig.pm have backticks, eg:
>
>    300c300
>    <   $hostname2 = hostname;
>    ---
>    >   $hostname2 = `hostname`;
Indeed, yes I think it probably should. Have you done a 'perl -c 
CustomConfig.pm' as that it what is complaining isn't right.
>
> to actually execute the hostname and assign it to the variable?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College

Jules

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