RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

[Mike Watson]

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On Thursday 25 September 2003 10:40 pm, you wrote:
> I did a couple of RH9 installs. Installed fresh, ran all the updates,
> setup sendmail, and installed MailScanner. Runs very well.
>
> Maybe it would be easier to update RedHat?
>
The same Perl upgrade applies to RH9 too.  I have one RH9 machine for 
evaluation.  I stay at least 1 version behind on my mail/web machine.

Mike W
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas M Watson" <mikew at CRUCIS.NET>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:44 PM
> Subject: RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11
>
> > 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.

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