Problems with SA/Mailscanner using different perl versions

Tue Nov 16 18:10:28 GMT 2004

Thanks Julian,

        That did the trick. Just as a side note, I think it would be a
really great idea if there were a document that described all the various
components in mailscanner (and its implementation of spamassassin). For
example, what calls what right from the beginning, and where are various
things configured. For example, MailScanner.conf is not the only
configuration file, and sometimes multiple copies of files might exist in
different parts of the system, and it can be struggle to determine which
ones are being read. Maybe I'm just a bit slow but it took me a long time of
reading various documents, and googling all over the place to try and figure
out which files were related to which.

        Just my two cents worth...

Mark

P.S. Google hasn't seemed to have indexed the archives of this list. Not
sure if that is deliberate, but it would make it easier for people trying to
solve mailscanner problems (imho)

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER.at.JISCMAIL.AC.UK at mailscanner.at.markf.mai
> lshell.com] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 16 November 2004 17:28
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Problems with SA/Mailscanner using different 
> perl versions
> 
> 
> Check the first line of /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner.
> 
> On 16/11/04 2:26 pm, "Mark Fyvie" 
> <mailscanner at MARKF.MAILSHELL.COM> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> >         Thanks for that tip, I found that I had originally 
> been using 
> > the rpm version, I found (on closer inspection) that the non-rpm 
> > version had an additional --perl switch, and I used this 
> (and while it 
> > was installing I saw it referencing the 5.8.0 version of perl!). So 
> > this installed a parallel version of mailscanner in 
> /opt/MailScanner, 
> > so I decided to keep this one and changed the 
> check_mailscanner file 
> > to point to this one instead. Relevant config options:
> >
> > process=MailScanner
> > msbindir=/opt/MailScanner/bin (the location of the freshly 
> installed 
> > MailScanner which points to my 5.8.0 version of perl) 
> > config=/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf (my existing config file)
> >
> > # These seem to get put all over the shop... 
> > PATH=/home/perl/bin:/usr/bin:/bin (I put the new perl path in front 
> > just in
> > case...)
> > export PATH
> > PERL=/home/perl/bin/perl (the path to my 5.8.0 version)
> >
> >         I then fire up mailscanner in debug mode, and get the same 
> > error I got before :-(
> >
> > Starting MailScanner daemons:
> >          incoming sendmail: ok
> >          outgoing sendmail: ok
> >          MailScanner:       In Debugging mode, not forking...
> > SpamAssassin installation could not be found at 
> > /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/SA.pm line 119
> >
> > The relevant line is:
> >    MailScanner::Log::DieLog("SpamAssassin installation 
> could not be found")
> >       unless eval "require Mail::SpamAssassin";
> >
> > So as I understand it, the SA modules are not being found 
> in my perl 
> > installation. So I double checked:
> >
> > [root MailScanner]# /home/perl/bin/perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e 1
> >
> > Nothing is returned, so the module is installed. This 
> confirms that it 
> > is living in my 5.8.0 version
> >
> > [root MailScanner]# /usr/bin/perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e 1 Can't 
> > locate Mail/SpamAssassin.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .). BEGIN 
> failed--compilation aborted.
> >
> > This is my 5.005 version. SpamAssassin doesn't live there 
> (because I 
> > deleted it earlier, since 3.0 and above can't run with this version)
> >
> > [root MailScanner]# perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e 1
> > Can't locate Mail/SpamAssassin.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .). BEGIN 
> failed--compilation aborted.
> >
> > This just confirms that the path environment variable 
> brings us to the 
> > 5.005 version.
> >
> > So I guess I am back to square 1: I've told MailScanner to use my 
> > 5.8.0 version, but it still seems to be running SA.pm with the old 
> > one. Is there anything else I may have missed?
> 
> --
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