MS not starting after SpamAssassin install

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed May 22 09:19:45 IST 2002


At 01:26 22/05/2002, you wrote:
>  I have Mailscanner running.  when I installed spamassassin I tried running
>./check_mailscanner and ./check_mailscanner.linux but they come up w/
>this...

In the process of installing SpamAssassin, your copy of Perl got upgraded
too. The "old version hunting" that Perl does isn't quite enough for
SpamAssassin to work. So you'll need to re-install SpamAssassin. Then it
should go.



>#########################################
>[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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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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