Mailscanner 4.54.6 on FreeBSd 6.1 not working

[Lars Kristiansen]

Marc Dufresne skrev:
> That's exactly whatI did. Mailscanner installed properly, I then
> followed the instructions at the end of the install concerning
> mailscanner and mta.
> 
> When executing mailscanner manually from the command line
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner start
> 
> It would just go back to the command line. If I ran ps -ax mailscanner
> wasn't running.
> 
> after pulling my hair out for about two hours, I noticed the latest
> version of Perl was 5.8.8. I was running perl 5.8.7. So I upgrade to
> perl5.8.8. That went successful. Mailscanner still didn't work. 

Look for perl in /usr/ports/Updating and you will see that you need
  to update everything perl when updating perl itself.
The easiest way is to run the perl-after-upgrade script.


> 
> So I went under /usr/ports/mail/mailscannner and ran
> 
> make deinstall
> 
> mailscanner-4.54.6 uninstalled successfully. Then I tried to re-install
> by running 
> 
> make 
> make install 
> under /usr/ports/mail/mailscannner.
> 
> Now I'm getting this error:
> 
> Installing for p5-Filesys-Statvfs_Df-0.68
> ===>   p5-Filesys-Statvfs_Df-0.68 depends on file:
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found

perl5.8

> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> ===>  Checking if devel/p5-Filesys-Statvfs_Df already installed
> make: don't know how to make /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/Config.pm.

perl5.7, so p5-Filesys-Statvfs_Df needs updating too.

> Stop
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/p5-Filesys-Statvfs_Df.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Marc Dufresne, Corporate IT Officer
> St. Lawrence Parks Commission
> 13740 County Road 2
> Morrisburg, ON  K0C 1X0
> 
> E-mail: Marc.Dufresne at parks.on.ca
> Voice: 613-543-3704  Ext#2455
> Fax: 613-543-2847
> Corporate website: www.parks.on.ca
> 
>>>> lars+lister.mailscanner at adventuras.no 6/10/2006 7:30:49 AM >>>
> Marc Dufresne skrev:
>> I have just upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 and Sendmail 8.13.6. 
>>
>> The mailscanner software running on my box is mailscanner 4.52.2-1. I
> have tested this with the above upgrades and it still is working
> perfectly.
>> I decided to update my ports tree and then updated mailscanner to
> version 4.54.6. Everything installed correctly, but I cannot get
> mailscanner to run from the command line or on boot.
>>   
> 
> Any failure messages?
> Wild shot: You need to update mailscanner after upgrading the os
>   because of a filename installation default.
>   (mta or mta.sh)
> 
> 
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