Public bug reported: Description of problem: Due to a change in perl syntax for Perl 5.14 and onwards, the use of qw(...) in specific contexts is now disallowed. This generates lots of messages of the form: Starting Port Scan Attack Detector: psad Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/sbin/psad line 4264. Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/sbin/psad line 4432. Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/sbin/psad line 5106. Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/sbin/psad line 6615. [...]
A fix is available in the psad-2.2 released Apr 20, 2012. Source tar archive (.gz) http://cipherdyne.org/psad/download/psad-2.2.tar.gz Changelog http://cipherdyne.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=psad.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;hb=refs/heads/psad-2.2 Kind regards, Emite Aves ** Affects: psad (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: psad (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: psad (Fedora) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Tags: psad python ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #771779 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771779 ** Also affects: psad (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771779 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #655040 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655040 ** Also affects: psad (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655040 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991869 Title: New version + Numerous Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated messages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/psad/+bug/991869/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
