RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

[Norman Schmidt Jr]

The Perl upgrade have wiped out all extra Perl modules that MailScanner
need to work. You just need to reinstall these modules, check:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/perl.shtml
Regards,
Norman

Thomas M Watson escreveu:
> RH8 just upgraded Perl  and now my MailScanner (4.23-11) fails at
> startup.  Error message below.
>
> Here is the list of updated RPMs from RH.  Anyone know what happened and
> how I can fix it?
>
> perl-5.8.0-88.3
> perl-CGI-2.81-88.3
> perl-CPAN-1.61-88.3
> perl-DB_FILE-1.804-88.3
> perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3
>
> After the updates I restarted MailScanner and got this.  I reloaded the
> MailScanner RPMs and attempted
> a reinstall, but that failed too.
>
> MailScanner failed. The error was: Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:       Can't locate MIME/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/lib/MailScanner
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .
> /usr/lib/MailScanner) at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm
> line 40.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 40.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 48.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 48.
> [  OK  ]
>