I eventually found the reason for this behaviour after I noticed that root could start it okay, but the unpriv user spamd couldn't...:
machine:~ # ls -la /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin drwx------ 2 root root 942 Nov 7 11:45 . Yeah, d'oh, no wonder the modules therein cannot be loaded...! Only thing is, what triggered this evil bug ? Is it my distribution, my installation method, or an obscure SpamAssassin bug ?? I'll try to find out which step exactly triggers this. In the meantime, I get bitten by some very lame dependancies which invariably lead to CPAN.pm attempting to install perl 5.8 (I have 5.6). I don't understand this. In the first place it doesn't give me any choice to skip the install of perl 5.8 as it does with all other packages, secondly the Spamassassin faq says perl 5.8 is to be avoided, right ? In any case, no matter what, I'll not allow such a perl upgrade on a production system cause I can not afford to break things. Actually, this is what happens. I ask for File::Basename and it automatically assumes that I want to upgrade my perl version. WTF ?!? Is this behaviour really as it should be ? cpan> install File::Basename Running make for N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.2.tar.gz CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.2.tar.gz Regards, Maarten On Thursday 06 November 2003 15:05, Maarten J H van den Berg wrote: > Hi list, > > I've tried to install SpamAssassin 2.60 in vain on several boxes, the > error that always happens is this (when trying to start spamd) : > > Can't locate Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 60. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 60. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/spamd line 33. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/spamd line 33. > startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/spamd: 2 > > However, the file > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm does exist, > and looks fine. What's wrong / what am I overlooking...? > > The boxes are SuSE 7.2 and I installed all with the CPAN module. > > Thanks in advance, > Maarten -- This email has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Maarten J. H. van den Berg ~~//~~ network administrator VBVB - Amsterdam - The Netherlands - http://vbvb.nl T +31204233288 F +31204233286 G +31651994273 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
