MS not starting after SpamAssassin install

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jul 1 14:42:44 IST 2002


At 14:34 01/07/2002, you wrote:
>Ok...here's a stupid question :)  Where is the @INC path defined?

Read the error message. From your own posting, your @INC is

(@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 .)



>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 4:31 AM
>Subject: Re: MS not starting after SpamAssassin install
>
>
> > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >

--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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