IPBlock and db 4.3.28 breakage

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Gang,

I rebuilt and reinstalled perl 5.8.6 on my system after having installed
db 4.3.28, and this problem went away.  To those using IPBlock,
beware!

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Sat, 7 May 2005, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 09:47:32 -0400
> From: Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu>
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> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: IPBlock and db 4.3.28 breakage
>
> Julian,
>
> Setup: Solaris 9, MS 4.42.1.  Yesterday I upgraded from
> Sleepycat 4.3.27 to 4.3.28 (which MS and sendmail use) and
> I noticed from my IPBlock cron job (the script you provide at
> the bottom of CustomConfig.pm) that it started failing with:
>
> Failed to open /etc/mail/db/access.db, have you got the path wrong?
> No such file or directory
>
> This is the correct path to my access.db file.  When I rolled
> back to 4.3.27, the problem went away.  The db 4.3.28 changelog is
> at:
>
> http://www.sleepycat.com/update/4.3.27/if.4.3.27.html
>
> Sendmail is happy with alias updates and other db changes with 4.3.28.
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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