no connection to syslog available

[Julian Field]

On Sun25 Jun 06, at 00:45, Arthur Sherman wrote:

>
> I get this error:
> ---
> [root at ns1 ~]# MailScanner -debug --lint
> no connection to syslog available
>         - _PATH_LOG not available in syslog.h at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Log.pm line 143
> [root at ns1 ~]# MailScanner -debug-sa -lint
> no connection to syslog available
>         - _PATH_LOG not available in syslog.h at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Log.pm line 143
> ---
>
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Log.pm line 143 has:
> ---
> Sys::Syslog::syslog($level, $_) if $_ ne "";
> ---
>
> Syslog.h has :
> ---
> define  _PATH_LOG       "/tmp/syslog"
> ---
> Which has perms of 700.
>
> Also, I get MailScanner defunct processes, which are recreated after
> killing.
>
> All I did was to modify (less) rules in RDJ and some perl modules  
> update
> with CPAN.
> Never forced.

This should show you what you have installed:
	MailScanner -v
It should be in the first section, ie compulsory modules. It's called  
Sys::Syslog.

And make sure your syslogd is running

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