RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11 (Fixed for now)

[Mike Watson]

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On Thursday 25 September 2003 09:40 pm, you wrote:
> 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  ]

I reverted the four Perl modules to the original RH8 versions and 
MailScanner is running again.  I sure would like to know what broke 
however.

Mike W
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