Mailscanner 4.54.6 on FreeBSd 6.1 not working

[Mike Jakubik]

Marc Dufresne wrote:
> 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. 
>
> 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
> ===>   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.
> Stop
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/p5-Filesys-Statvfs_Df.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner.
>
> Any ideas?
>   

Yes, you most likely hosed your perl installation by not properly 
upgrading it. Did you run the perl-after-upgrade script after updating 
perl? It sounds like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair.