MS not starting after SpamAssassin install

[Julian Field]

I've never tried installing spamassassin via rpm. I would recommend CPAN
(as described on the SpamAssassin web site) or even a manual
         perl Makefile.PL
         make
         make install
which is safest and is really pretty easy.

At 09:40 22/05/2002, you wrote:
>I did that and it still came up w/ the same problem
>
>installed
>
>rpm -ivh --force spamassassin
>
>that didn't work so
>
>rpm -e spamassassin
>
>rpm -ivh spamassassin
>
>still no go.
>
>any suggestions or is it a spamassassin prob.
>
>thanx.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:20 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MS not starting after SpamAssassin install
>
>
>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
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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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
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ