Perl Path

[Martin.Hepworth]

There's quite a bit of stuff that MailScanner expects to find in certain
places (eg /opt/MailScanner for the tar.gz installs vs
/usr/lib/MailScanner etc for RPM based installs).

Now I know the FreeBSD package moves things to the default places
FreeBSD expects, but not sure how much work that entails. But its
definitely possible.

Then there's all tbe perl mods - cpan or rpm can dump things in
different places and confuse perl. As long as you're consistant about
how you install all the dependancies you're OK.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of --[ UxBoD ]--
> Sent: 21 March 2007 09:10
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Perl Path
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Yes I have symlinked for the time being. I agree that most scripts
expect
> the perl path to be /usr/bin but by using a symlink the whole system
will
> use it.
>
> The rationale for building under /usr/local/smartmail with all the
> necessary binaries is so that I can tar it all up, and transfer to
another
> mailserver that has a vanilla RHES4 installation.
>
> This provides me with control of updating when I feel packages are
ready
> for production.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> UxBoD
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:56:31 +0000, "Martin.Hepworth"
> <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
> > Or going a sym link from /usr/bin/perl to
/usr/local/smartmail/bin/perl
> > ala FreeBSD with the sysperl and portsperl options...
> >
> > Most perl scripts expect perl to be /usr/bin/perl....
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-
> >> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of --[ UxBoD ]--
> >> Sent: 21 March 2007 08:37
> >> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> >> Subject: Perl Path
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just built a new server based on RHES4 and have built all
the
> >> executables from source ie. perl, mysql, apache, php etc etc ...
> >>
> >> When I built MailScanner I used the source and ran install.sh --
> >> perl=/usr/local/smartmail/bin/perl which installed all the modules
> > fine.
> >> Though one thing I have noticed is that in the top of all the
> > MailScanner
> >> code the perl path still points to /usr/bin/perl. I wondered why it
> > wasn't
> >> working correctly ;)
> >>
> >> Is it worth changing the install script so that if the --perl
option
> > is
> >> used then the perl binary path in all scripts is changed aswell ?
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
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