| > it seems like SA is trying to upgrade you preferences file | (and fails because it is run by amavisd-new in perl -T mode) | > Looks like a problem report for SA people.
>From Brian May: | According to Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who suddenly woke up | when I reassigned this bug to spamassassin (I did ask everyone before I | assigned it to to spamassassin, didn't I?), "spamassassin is not meant | to run in -T mode". | | Duncan, spamassassin in stable works just fine with amavis. | Why is it different now? | | Mark, do you agree with Duncan's assessment? | | I hope that it will be possible to get amavis working again | to everybody's satisfaction... It is hard to judge decisions made by SA people, when I'm not following the discussions there closely. From amavisd-new standpoint it is certainly unfortunately if SA must no longer be called with perl in -T mode. This certainly worked in SA version so far, and perhaps it would not be too much work to keep this nice behaviour. amavisd-new will not drop running in taint-checking mode. It is one of the safeguards agains configuration mistakes and programming errors. For a software that inspects and decodes tons of strange e-mail messages per day, over which one has no control, every little bit of extra protection helps. If amavisd-new would need to avoid calling Mail::SpamAssassin directly as a Perl module, but had to either fork a new process or learn yet another protocol, we lose many of the benefits of the fact that SA is available as a Perl module. Being stuck to the SA 2.31 is another unappealing option. I can only appeal to the SA people to consider keeping SA operational in the taint-checking mode, as it was so far (and like Vipul's Razor is now - due to popular demand, but wasn't in the distant past) Regards Mark -- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! Mark Martinec (system manager) tel +386 1 4773-575 !! !! J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39 fax +386 1 2519-385 !! !! SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia [EMAIL PROTECTED] !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.ijs.si/people/mark/ !!!! On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:13:55PM +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: > Looking at your diegnostics: > > | Starting amavisd: Insecure dependency in rename > | while running with -T switch > | at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 696. > > and checking the code near SpamAssassin.pm line 696: > > if (defined $old_prefs_name && -f $old_prefs_name) { > dbg ("migrating $old_prefs_name to $fname"); > rename ($old_prefs_name, $fname) or > warn "rename $old_prefs_name to $fname failed: $!\n"; > } > > it seems SA is trying to upgrade you preferences file. > Looks like a problem report for SA people. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
