RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

[Brett Moss]

hi,
i also upgraded two RH8 boxes with no problems.  both
running mailscanner 4.12-2

brett

--- Daniel Kleinsinger <danielk at AVALONPUB.COM> wrote:
> I up2dated my RH8 box (obviously before reading your
> email) and
> MailScanner started up/is working without a problem.
>  Not too helpful,
> but it doesn't seem like a global thing, maybe just
> something with your
> setup.  I'm running MS 4.21 w/ SA 2.60.
>
> Daniel
>
> Mike Watson wrote:
>
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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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> >ARS: W0TMW
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