MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Revision to 4.55

[Rick Cooper]

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Julian
> Field
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:58 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Revision to 4.55
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> Scott Silva wrote:
> > Julian Field spake the following on 8/7/2006 10:46 AM:
> >> The author of the Sys::Syslog perl module has withdrawn it due to
> >> problems including compatibility issues with some Linux distributions.
> >> The most obvious effect is that the "make test" step may hang part-way
> >> through the tests.
> >>
> >> As a result, I have had no alternative other than to
> reluctantly publish
> >> a revision of the latest stable release of MailScanner.
> >>
> >> If you had problems installing 4.55.9 (notably on some CentOS systems)
> >> then download and upgrade to 4.55.10.
> >>
> >> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info
> >>
> >> Note that if you had no problems installing 4.55.9, there is no reason
> >> to upgrade to 4.55.10.
> >>
> >> Sorry for this forced re-release.
> >>
> > Does anything change in MailScanner, or is it just the rollback of the
> > Sys::Syslog module?
>
> What I ended up doing in the end was shipping a version of Sys-Syslog
> 0.17 that skips the "make test" stage, which can lock-up.
> 0.16 doesn't work at all on some systems, and 0.17 "make test" locks up
> on other systems.
>
> I wish the author of this could get his act together and produce some
> code which worked, it would make my life a whole lot easier :-(
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Is there a reason you need Sys::Syslog as opposed to Unix::Syslog? The
biggest differences between them seem to be the fact that Unix::Syslog
doesn't open a network connection to syslogd (which may well cause some of
the problems on some linux systems), and  Unix::Syslog uses numeric
constants (parameters) in places that Sys::Syslog uses strings. Converting
to Unix::Syslog might be a better long term answer.

Rick


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