upgrade to perl 5.8.1, no go

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 21 17:45:26 IST 2003


And if you comment out the setlogsock line altogether, so it never tries to
use a unix domain socket?

At 17:06 21/10/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>    Still no go.  The complaint was:
>
>Starting MailScanner...
>In Debugging mode, not forking...
>unix dgram connect: Socket operation on non-socket at
>/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm line 133
>no connection to syslog available at
>/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm line 133
>
>The line number is one greater because I copied the eval line, commented
>out the original, and removed the eval { ... }; on the copied line.
>
>--- Jeff
>
>On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:32:34 +0100
> > From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: upgrade to perl 5.8.1, no go
> >
> > What happens if you remove the "eval" wrapper around the setlogsock code on
> > line 67?
> >
> > At 16:29 21/10/2003, you wrote:
> > >Julian,
> > >
> > >   I upgraded from perl 5.8.0 to 5.8.1, and reinstalled the modules
> > >MS perl modules required.  With 5.8.1, MailScanner won't start, giving
> > >the following error in debug mode:
> > >
> > >In Debugging mode, not forking...
> > >unix dgram connect: Socket operation on non-socket at
> > >/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm line 132
> > >no connection to syslog available at
> > >/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Log.pm line 132
> > >255
> > >
> > >The list archives didn't shed light on this.  Perl 581 passed all of its
> > >tests, including the syslog test -- it scribbled into syslog.
> > >My setup: Sun V1280, Solaris 9, perl built with Solaris
> > >Forte 7 cc compiler.  Other perl apps are happy on this box.
> > >
> > >By changing my /usr/bin/perl syslink to point back to perl5.8.0,
> everything
> > >runs again.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > >--- Jeff Earickson
> > >     Colby College
> >
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> > Julian Field
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