RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

Mike Watson mikew at CRUCIS.NET
Sat Sep 27 22:41:38 IST 2003


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On Saturday 27 September 2003 01:50 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
>

Tried that.  Didn't work.  'install.sh' failed with error halfway 
through the script.

mw
> 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.
> >
> > 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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