"spamassassin" redhat 9 mailscanner

[Julian Field]

The RPM is installing SpamAssassin in a location where Perl can't find it.
Build SpamAssassin from source (ie the .tar.gz distribution) instead.

At 22:37 05/04/2003, you wrote:
>my setup:
>
>OS  : Redhat 9
>Sendmail  : 8.12.8/8.12.8 (rpm)
>MailScanner  : 4.14.9 (rpm)
>Spamassassin : 2.53 (rpm)
>
>Tonight I have upgraded my Redhat 8 box to 9. The update process wend
>smooth with hardly problems worth mentioning.  The only odd thing I found
>was that spamassassin was set back to 2.44 which comes with RedHat 9 and
>had overwritten my custom 2.52 on the system. I have de-installed the RPM
>cleanup files hanging on the system and installed the 2.53 rpm.
>
>The problem is that MailScanner is not starting with "Use SpamAssassin
>= yes" this is what the log shows..
>
>Apr  5 23:14:38 bromberg MailScanner[10491]:
>MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
>Apr  5 23:14:48 bromberg MailScanner[10495]:
>MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
>and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
>
>When I set "Use SpamAssassin = no" MailScanner starts fine
>
>MailScanner[10696]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.14-9
>starting...
>MailScanner[10696]: Using locktype = flock
>MailScanner[10700]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.14-9
>starting...
>MailScanner[10700]: Using locktype = flock
>
>but of course without spamassassin checks.. I have downgraded to 2.52 but
>this does not solve the problem. I have completely removed everything down
>to MailScanner, spamassassin and sendmail but have no clue where to
>look now..

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