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Julian,
<p>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.
<p>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:
<blockquote>You appear to have 2 versions of Perl installed,
<br>the normal one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local.
<br>This often happens if you have used CPAN to install modules.
<br>I strongly advise you remove all traces of perl from
<br>within /usr/local and then run this script again.
<p>If you do not want to do that, and really want to continue,
<br>then you will need to run this script as
<br> ./install.sh ignore-perl</blockquote>
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.)
<p>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? 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>
<p>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?)
<p>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?
<p>This can wait a bit, viruses are being stopped and the mail is getting
delivered.
<p>Van
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