spam filtering ceased

[Dan Stromberg]

LOL :)

I used to do this stuff without thinking that much about it, like
copying a tcsh overtop of an Ultrix system's csh, but then I got chewed
out by a senior admin...

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 15:25 -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FWIW, when I cold-install Solaris 9 or 10 onto a system, I don't
> install either the SUNW perl packages, the SUNW sendmail package,
> or some other unwanted packages (like apache).  You don't need 
> them for the OS to work properly, and they are out-of-date relative 
> to the public-domain releases anyway.  Then I install the
> public-domain versions.
> 
> Come on, be brave.  Do a "cp /dcs/bin/perl /dcs/bin/perl.orig" to
> CYA before replacing with a symlink.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
> 
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:08:59 -0700
> > From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg at DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: spam filtering ceased
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 11:20 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> >> By default, MailScanner will always use /usr/bin/perl. But anything that
> >> looks for perl in your path may well pick up /dcs/bin/perl. Having these
> >> 2 different is very dangerous and the cause of a whole host of problems.
> >> Consider replacing /usr/bin/perl with a link to /dcs/bin/perl. And who
> >> put perl in /bin? It doesn't belong there.
> >
> > Hi Julian.
> >
> > Thanks for your comments.
> >
> > I'm reluctant to replace /usr/bin/perl with a symlink to /dcs/bin/perl,
> > because /usr/bin/perl is the Sun version, and I'm concerned that there
> > might be a perl script that ships with the OS that isn't compatibile
> > with /dcs/bin/perl.
> >
> > /bin and /usr/bin are the same directory usually on most Sun's.
> >
> > Would it be sufficient to make sure the $PATH as known by MailScanner
> > does not include /dcs/bin/perl?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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