Error Starting MS in Debog mode

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Nov 16 14:44:03 GMT 2003


At 14:40 16/11/2003, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>Yes Mime::Tools is installed.
>
>cpan> install MIME::Tools
>MIME::Tools is up to date.

In which case you have either
(a) the wrong version
or
(b) a version without any of the necessary security patches. Please install
it as per the instructions on the MailScanner website, this will apply some
very important security patches.

MailScanner itself certainly doesn't require MIME::ToolUtils, it's not
installed on my systems at all.

>Also it is in the same path as all the other required modules, I even went
>as far as to try and create a link between MIME::ToolUtils and MIME::Tools
>
>Rick
>
>On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 22:47 15/11/2003, you wrote:
> > >Hello
> > >
> > >I have perl 5.8.1
> > >MS 4.24-5
> > >SA 2.60
> > >
> > >AFAIK I have all required modules installed, MS appears to start ok
> > >however nothing is written to the log files and the mail in the queue is
> > >un-touched. It does show that MailScanner is running:
> > >
> > >root   665     1  0 14:23:27 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd
> > >-ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> >
> > As it says, that is sendmail and not MailScanner itself.
> >
> > >When I try running MS in de-bugging mode I get the following error:
> > >
> > >./check_mailscanner.solaris
> > >Starting MailScanner...
> > >In Debugging mode, not forking...
> > >Can't locate object method "config" via package "MIME::ToolUtils" at
> > >/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 571.
> > >
> > >I do not have a ToolUtils package and could not seem to find one via cpan.
> > >Or am I getting sidetracked away form the original problem by going after
> > >the debugging problem?
> >
> > In which case you have not installed MIME-tools. Please read and follow the
> > installation instructions on the web site
> > http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/other.shtml
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
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> >

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