MS not starting after SpamAssassin install

[Julian Field]

At 01:40 01/07/2002, you wrote:
>Ok...I ran into the same thing today.  I installed SpamAssassin via CPAN
>before I installed MS and Sophos.  I now see that was a mistake :)  Problem
>is, I have tried to reinstall SA from CPAN and the problem persists  (force
>install Mail::SpamAssassin).  Is there a way to uninstall SA and then start
>fresh?

You'll have to dig into the directories on your @INC path (helpfully
printed by the error message you keep getting :-) and manually delete SA.

Personally I never use CPAN to install SA, I do it with the
         perl Makefile.PL
         make
         make test
         make install
route described on the website. This seems to work a treat. If you go down
this route and hit any problems, I have written an FAQ on the MS website
about installing Spamassassin 2.30/2.31.


>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Support" <support at IQUEST.UCSB.EDU>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:26 PM
>Subject: MS not starting after SpamAssassin install
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I have Mailscanner running.  when I installed spamassassin I tried
>running
> > ./check_mailscanner and ./check_mailscanner.linux but they come up w/
> > this...
> >
> >
> > #########################################
> > [root at frost bin]# ./check_mailscanner
> > Starting virus scanner...
> > Can't locate Mail/SpamAssassin.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/local/MailScanner/bin /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
> > /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/sendmail.pl line 46.
> > Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner
>line
> > 77.
> >
> > ########################################
> >
> > I found spamassassin to be here /usr/lib
> > /perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm
> >
> > so I tried to edit the /bin/sendmail.pl file
> >
> > use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail';
> > use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin';
> >
> >
> > And that didnt work even thought the path to the module showed up in @INC.
> >
> >  This looks like a problem w/ Mailscanner or spam assassin install.
> >
> >
> > Is there another way of fixing this?
> >
> > thanx
> >
> >

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