upgrade to perl 5.8.1, no go

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,

   I commented out line 67 of lib /MailScanner/Log.pm, aka:

eval { Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix'); }; # This may fail!

put MailScanner.conf in debug=yes mode, and ran
/opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner.  This script spat out the
pid number of the process, then...  nothing.  Tailing the syslog
saw no output.  No secondary MS processes forked off.  No email
moved.  Nada.  I'm running Sol 9 with the latest patches, at least
since last month (I need to patch again, but I would like to kill
this bug first).

--- Jeff

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:45:26 +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
>
> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Julian Field
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>
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