MailScanner Broke on both Fedora Core 6 & 7

[Glenn Steen]

On 04/10/2007, Vernon Webb <vernon at comp-wiz.com> wrote:
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> > You may need the kick if you are trying to stand up leaning on a bad
> > stick. Either fix issues on a string of incidents or choose a path with
> > less incidents. If you need the machine you need stablility. Go with FC6
> > if you like but do not expect stability like one will see with enterprise
> > oriented distro's.
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> > I have seen my share of shitty issues with FC and learned from it. So it
> > is up to you to learn it the hard way yourself by continueing on this path
> > or take someone's word for it while you hit your first serious bump on a
> > road I feel will lead you to more trouble.
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> Again, you may be right you may not, at this stage of the game a resolution
> is needed, not a kick in the head.

Moving in that direction then, it might not be FC6/7 as such, but
rather what you do to them:-).
Going to myself, I know that I tend to set things up the same way,
"regardless" of distro/version... So, in your case, something in how
you set them up/admin them has somehow introduced a secondary perl
installation, or "fragments" of one.
>From the MailScanner perspective, fixing that is easy... Just remove
the "extra" perl install/fragments and redo the installation of MS...
But if that is a "good idea" is so very much depending on the reason
for the second install... And I'm afraid that the answer to that is
only something _you_ can find.

What other things than MS do you use them for? Looking at that might
provide a clue...
I know that it is really hard to focus on ... important "forensics"
when the mail-flow is broken... But (since you seem to have some
experience) I'm sure you know this already:-).

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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