Start failure due to Compress/Zlib.pm line 9

[David Annett]

I hope you don't find my attitude lazy since I feel the server should serve
me and not the other way round, so I try to keep things as simple as
possible while providing the features I want.  For this reason I have never
looked at running the mta by itself.  I have tried downloading the latest
version of MailScanner from www.mailscanner.org and installed it.  I have
also tried using cpan to update Archive::Zip and, as suggested,
Scalar::Init.  Neither help as even running "/usr/sbin/MailScanner -v"
returns an error.  I will disable yum if that is what it takes to make the
system work properly.  I suspect it is also the cause of dhcpd.conf file
periodically having it's DNS info overwriten.  I have relied on yum to keep
me patched so as to reduce hacking risks.

The bottom line is I'm still stuffed.  I read throught 2 months of mailling
list listings before placing my message but guess I should return and read
more.

Thanks for your advice.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Alex Neuman van der Hans
<alex at rtpty.com>wrote:

> Down because you don't want to run your mta by itself. Down because you ran
> a peel update that broke several things.
>
> Update MailScanner, along with other relevant perl modules such as
> scalar::util, and do a --lint. Run your my by itself in the meantime.
> Disable yum updates.
>
> ---
>
> Alex Neuman
> Reliant Technologies
> +507 6781-9505
> Skype: alexneuman
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:59 PM, "David Annett" <annett.david at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi guys,
>>  MailScanner is failing to start on my CentOS 5 server due to what appears
>> to be an issue with perl-Archive-Zip.  When I issue a "service MailScanner
>> start" I get the following error:
>>
>> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>>         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>         MailScanner:        is only avaliable with the XS version at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
>> Compilation failed in require at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 11.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 11.
>> Compilation failed in require at
>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
>> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
>>                                                           [  OK  ]
>>
>> From what I can gather the issue could be with perl-Archive-Zip and
>> according to yum is "perl-Archive-Zip.noarch 1.23-1.el5.rf installed".  The
>> latest version I can find is 1.24 but not packaged for CentOS.
>>
>> I wellcome any suggestions as the email for my whole domain has now been
>> down for serveral hours and I'm running out of ideas fo how to fix this!
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>  David
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