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At 19:25 06/11/2002, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font color="#400040">I've been
running with 4.00.0a13 ever since that frantic weekend when you were
spitting out a new alpha every few hours. (You released them all, I
installed them all, did either of us get any sleep?) At that time I
couldn't get the ./install.sh to ever work, and you had me uninstalling
each package, in reverse order, and then installing each package in
order. </font></blockquote><br>
I have hazy memories of that weekend... Given more hardware, I could
build test systems for other OS's. VMWare helps a lot (my main desktop pc
can run run 3 different OS's at the same time) but it's not a complete
solution to the problem.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font color="#400040">It's been a
while, so I decided to catch up again and just grabbed 4.05 to try. With
that many other installs behind you, I thought I'd give the installer
another shot. After congratulating me for having the patch command and
/usr/src/redhat, it gave me this:
<dl>
<dd>You appear to have 2 versions of Perl installed,
<dd>the normal one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local.
<dd>This often happens if you have used CPAN to install modules.
<dd>I strongly advise you remove all traces of perl from
<dd>within /usr/local and then run this script again. <br><br>
<dd>If you do not want to do that, and really want to continue,
<dd>then you will need to run this script as
<dd> ./install.sh
ignore-perl<br><br>
</dl>That neatly illustrates the most frustrating thing about my
Linux/Unix experience. If anyone on earth should know where Perl modules
should be, it has to be CPAN, right? And if anyone on earth should know
where files belong on a RedHat system, it would be rpm, right? So how
come every machine I have ever run more than a week has at least two sets
of several Perl directories? (Never mind that I have to have two versions
of Python now.) <br><br>
I know, you didn't make this mess. But I certainly don't feel confident
removing all traces of Perl from /usr/local, and the only trace I see
there is <br>
mod_perl.pm ->
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/mod_perl.pm <br>
which is a link to yet a third location. Is there a risk in running more
than one copy of Perl things?</font></blockquote><br>
It can affect where cpan tries to install things, which may not be where
/usr/bin/perl finds things. The test in my script looks for /usr/bin/perl
and /usr/local/bin/perl, and complains if they both exist.<br>
Try<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>cd
/usr/local<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>find .
-name '*perl*' -print<br>
to find potential targets,<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font color="#400040"> Is it
greater than the risk of running less than one? Or, as seems more likely
to me, having seven copies of Perl things but none of them is in the
place that something else wants it to be? As much as I despise Microsoft,
I at least know where everything goes in a Windows system! </rant>
<br><br>
So, I'm thinking about going back to the familiar routine of removing
each RPM in turn and reinstallting them one at a time. That way the only
thing I have to worry about is to restore my MailScanner.conf. (Which
reminds me, why can't RPM note if a valid conf file is in place and leave
it alone?) </font></blockquote><br>
RPM does do this, and will leave you with both the new one and your old
one, so you can sort out your customisations.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font color="#400040">Also, I have
noticed a major difference in the messages I get when a virus is found.
When I was running 3.23 I got the headers of the offending message, now I
get a short summary. Is this a change from MailScanner 3 to 4, or a
change from Kasparsky to f-prot which I made at the same time for
economic reasons? </font></blockquote><br>
This is a configuration option, called something containing "Full
Headers" if I remember rightly.<br>
<div>--</div>
<div>Julian
Field
Teaching Systems Manager</div>
<div>jkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science</div>
<div>Tel. 023 8059
2817 University of
Southampton</div>
Southampton SO17 1BJ
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