MS on a RHEL rebuild, perl modules problem?

[Julian Field]

At 09:07 20/07/2004, you wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 08:08 20/07/2004, you wrote:
> > >I am using a RedHat Enterprise 3 rebuild (TaoLinux) and installed
> > >MailScanner on it. I installed through the install script.
> > >
> > >When virii come in they are caught by the filename rules and not by
> > >clamav.
> >
> > Are you using the command-line clamav or the perl module? I would suspect
> > the perl-MIME-tools didn't install correctly.
>
>I installed clamav from the tarball, no perl modules. When i start
>if from the commandline on of the files in quarantine it immediately
>catches the virus.

Don't forget that clamav changes its uid when it is run, so it may just be
that it can't read your /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming.

> > >Why can't I install the rpms after building them and wouldn't it be nice
> > >if MailScanner would report any missing (vital) modules on startup or in
> > >the maillog?
> >
> > It won't even start up if there is much missing, it can't try to run code
> > that doesn't exist.
>
>OK, thanks! I guess that means that the mdoules that refused to install
>are already there even though they do not show up with a rpm -qa?

Yes.
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Julian Field
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