Fw: Error Starting MailScanner

[Jon Radel]

If your machine has a /usr/local, it almost certainly has a rm command,
as in:

rm /usr/local/bin/perl

Needless to say, if you have other production software running on this
machine which requires perl, it may be configured to require *this* copy
of perl.  It's up to you to analyze the implications and deal appropriately.

Incidentally, if someone suggests that you run

rm -fr /usr/local     <-----DO NOT USE this command unless you really

                            know what it does

to scrap your files, you may take it as a suggestion to learn more about
your OS. (Read the man page and figure it out.)

--Jon Radel


Vernon Webb wrote:
> How do I "scrap" them?
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> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:44:35 +0100
> Subject: Re: Fw: Error Starting MailScanner
>
>> You need to decide which version of perl you want to keep.
>> By default, MailScanner will use /usr/bin/perl.
>> However, if the other one (/usr/local/bin/perl) is earlier in your
>> $PATH, then some of the installation might have gone into that one and
>> not /usr/bin/perl.
>>
>> I would advise scrapping /usr/local/bin/perl and /usr/local/lib/perl5
>> and anything else in /usr/local that looks like perl and re-installing
>> MailScanner into your system, so that it will all go in /usr/bin/perl.
>>
>> You can find perly things in /usr/local like this:
>> find /usr/local -name '*perl*' -print
>>
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