Problems with SA/Mailscanner using different perl versions

[Martin Hepworth]

Mark

if you use the tar.gz version to install there's an option on the
'install' script to tell it where to look for the correct perl version..


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Mark Fyvie wrote:
> Hi list,
>
>  I have a small problem. Well actually it is not so small. I'm no linux
> expert, but have had a bit of experience tinkering around on my Cobalt RAQ4
> (based on Redhat), so please bear with me...
>
>  I was running Mailscanner 4.30 and what I thought was SpamAssassin 2.63
> (turns out that Mailscanner 4.30 was actually referencing a previous
> installation of SA 2.55!). Last weekend I decided to upgrade to SpamAssassin
> 3.01, so at the same time I upgraded to MailScanner 4.35.
>
>  After reading through all the help files, FAQs, and every bit of
> documentation I could find for MailScanner and SpamAssassin I did make
> considerable progress. For example, I discovered that SA 2.55 was still
> being referenced by the new version of MailScanner and all sorts of other
> issues. I completely purged my system of previous versions of both programs.
>
>  Before I go on I should mention that I am running two versions of Perl, and
> have been doing so for quite some time. The version which is shipped with
> the RAQ4 is 5.005. I also installed 5.8.0 in parallel to this. If I need to
> use the newer version in a given script I usually just change the
> #!/usr/bin/perl line at the start of the script. Why did I keep the old
> version of perl? Well after some investigation it seems that many of the
> built-in functions and scripts used by the RAQ will break if the original
> perl version is removed, so I decided to run both in parallel.
>
>  Now the issue here is that the new SpamAssassin no longer works with any of
> the old perl versions, so I installed it into my 5.8.0. The problem I have
> is that MailScanner is running with my 5.005 version, so when SA.pm does its
> check to see if SpamAssassin is present, it reports that it cannot find
> SpamAssassin. I've tried playing with the paths in the MailScanner.conf
> file, turning on all the debugs, adding the line #!/home/perl/bin/perl (this
> points to 5.8.0) to SA.pm, but no luck.
>
>  I tried to reinstall MailScanner (I always did it via make) to see if there
> were any options I could choose to specify a different copy of perl, but I
> could find no such options. I could find routines that searched for multiple
> versions of perl and simply told the user that it wasn't a good idea. The
> FAQ on the mailscanner site says something similar, along the lines of "It's
> not bad to have more than one version, but you'll have less problems if you
> choose just one".
>
>  My problem is that I can't just have one version. My question is this: How
> do I either A> Install mailscanner so that it uses my 5.8.0 version
> exclusively, or B> Tell it to use 5.8.0 when it calls any scripts related to
> the use of SpamAssassin?
>
>  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
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