Fw: Error Starting MailScanner

[Scott Silva]

on 10/3/2007 11:47 AM Hugo van der Kooij spake the following:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Vernon Webb wrote:
> 
>> OK, I have some more info. When I installed MailScanner it told me the 
>> following: 
>>
>>       You appear to have 2 versions of Perl installed,
>>       the normal one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local.
>>       This often happens if you have used CPAN to install modules.
>>       I strongly advise you remove all traces of perl from
>>       within /usr/local and then run this script again.
>>
>>       If you do not want to do that, and really want to continue,
>>       then you will need to run this script as
>>               ./install.sh ignore-perl
>>
>> I had no idea what to do so I told it to ignore this. Any idea how I 
>> locate this other Perl and remove it?
> 
> Pardon me. But the answer is in the quote. Clear out your perl stuff 
> from the /usr/local tree. If that is too hard to do then perhaps you 
> should ask an administrator to do this for you. But in that case I also 
> suggest you do not install software on the system but let an admin do 
> this for you.
> 
> Unfortunately there is not a more nice way to say this but I recommend 
> you do not exercise root privileges until you have learned to master 
> them.
> 
> Hugo.
> 
OUCH!
:-(



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