SA 3.0 debugging, burned by Sys-Hostname-Long

[John Rudd]

Jeff: this is a known issue brought up on the list on Sept 4th (the
message subject was: "non-GNU systems: serious bug in SA3 dependency").


List: I volunteered to tackle this, and then a) our mail servers had a
problem, b) we had students come back from summer break and introduce
another set of problems, and c) a family crisis happend.  So, I haven't
had a chance to actually address this yet.

Over on the spamassassin list, they're discussing it (message subject
is: "Solaris Gotcha - Re: Quick upgrade review from 2.4x -> 3.0"), and
someone there HAS contacted the author of the module in question.  So,
some headway is being made somewhere ... but not by me.

If someone else wants to take it over from me, I understand.  Just post
a message to the list here, so we all know who is doing it.  Otherwise,
I expect I'll be able to get to it next week.

Last, I'm sorry for the delay and the lack of communication.


John



"Jeff A. Earickson" wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
> I was doing some testing of SA 3.0 on the issue of URIBL, by doing:
>
> spamassassin -D -p /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf --test < bad.msg
>
> where bad.msg was from Rick Cooper's posting about this whole issue
> of getting the URIBL stuff to work.  Anyway, the command above reset
> my hostname on my Solaris box!!!  (I was running as root since MS does).
>
> This bug is a manifestation of the bug in Sys-Hostname-Long-1.2,
> whereby it changes your hostname to "-fqdn" as part of the "make test"
> stuff during installation.  Beware that it bites in other ways!
> (Julian, any fix from the maintainer?)
>
> My test output of SA 3.0 shows that the URIBL stuff is being used
> against the test message, but I shure don't see any syslogging of
> its use from MailScanner.  <headscratch>
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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