Perl Path

--[ UxBoD ]-- uxbod at splatnix.net
Wed Mar 21 10:24:01 CET 2007


Yeah tell me about it :)

I have downloaded all the dependancies from CPAN and compiled with the my new perl binary. Here is my source directory ! :-

Algorithm-Diff-1.1902     File-Which-0.05          MIME-tools-5.420            Socket6-0.19           gifsicle-1.46      openssl-0.9.8d
Archive-Tar-1.30          FuzzyOcr-3.5.1           Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1      String-Approx-3.26     gocr-0.43          pcre-7.0
Archive-Zip-1.18          HTML-Parser-3.56         Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7     Sys-Hostname-Long-1.4  httpd-2.2.4        perl-5.8.8
Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.003  HTML-Tagset-3.10         Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8     Text-Diff-0.35         jpeg-6b            php-5.2.0
Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.003   IO-Compress-Base-2.003   MailScanner-install-4.58.8  Time-HiRes-1.9705      libidn-0.6.10      policyd-v1.80
Compress-Zlib-2.003       IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.003  MailTools-1.74              URI-1.35               libungif-4.1.4     postfix-2.3.6
Convert-BinHex-1.119      IO-Compress-Zlib-2.003   Net-CIDR-0.11               apr-1.2.8              libwww-perl-5.805  pyzor-0.4.0
Convert-TNEF-0.17         IO-Socket-INET6-2.51     Net-CIDR-Lite-0.20          apr-iconv-1.1.1        lpng1216           subversion-1.4.3
DBD-mysql-4.001           IO-Socket-SSL-1.02       Net-DNS-0.59                apr-util-1.2.8         mysql-5.0.33       tesseract-1.03
DBI-1.53                  IO-Zlib-1.04             Net-IP-1.25                 clamav-0.90.1          netpbm             tiff-3.8.2
Digest-HMAC-1.01          IO-stringy-2.110         Net-Ident-1.20              curl-7.16.1            netpbm-10.26.39    zlib-1.2.3
Digest-SHA1-2.11          IP-Country-2.23          Net_SSLeay.pm-1.30          gd-2.0.34              netpbm-10.35
File-Temp-0.18            MIME-Base64-3.07         PathTools-3.24              giflib-4.1.4           ocrad-0.16

All seems to be working okay though.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:18:23 +0000, "Martin.Hepworth" <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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