Warning: latest RH perl update breaks MailScanner

[Peter Farrow]

Richard Lynch wrote:
>
> Just a quick warning to everyone.  A Redhat update for perl was 
> released yesterday.  Once applied a restart of MailScanner fails with...
>
> Starting MailScanner...
>
> **** ERROR: You must upgrade your perl IO module to at least
> **** ERROR: version 1.2301 or MailScanner will not work!
>
> Failed.
>
>
> The new perl rpm for RHEL4 is perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.  For RHEL3 it's 
> perl-5.8.0-98.EL3.  I don't know about the other releases.  The fix 
> for us was to re-install MailScanner (i.e. ./install.sh fast).
>
> Richard Lynch
> WVNET
>

You can probably just re-install the perl io rpm back to a working 
version, or do it through the CPAN command line interface rather than 
jumping through the whole install again..


P.


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