RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

[Remco Barendse]

The solution is *very* simple, just run the 2 mailscanner install scripts
after upgarding perl, this reinstalls the modules required. I have already
upgraded several boxes without any single problem.



On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Mike Watson wrote:

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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.
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> 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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