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[Res]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:

> Res wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Mordur Ingolfsson wrote:
>> 
>>> I had the same problem. I tried everything suggested in this thread and
>>> more, f.ex. downgrading to Debian version stable, (4.41.3-2) but that
>>> one wont even start. Not a single complaint or anything in syslog. Just
>>> nothing.
>>> 
>>> Since the incoming mailqueue was filling up and nobody got their mail
>>> yesterday,
>> 
>> Yep, not nice when your queue is several hundred K because  MS cant talk to 
>> lil ol syslog, try my suggestion to Arthur in another thread, howeer youer 
>> problem comes accross as slightly different keep it at version 0.15 or 
>> lower
>> 
>> 
> Any good info/pointers/howtos on downgrading/uninstalling perl modules, for 
> the faint of heart (or otherwise caffeine deprived)?


grab the 0.15 version of sys::syslog and install it, it will over write 
the later version

perl Makefile.PL && make && make install

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Cheers
Res