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Christopher X. Candreva writes: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote: > > > OK, I'm officially running 3.0 in production now. The upgrade was > > miraculously easy. Despite my paranoia that something was going to bite me > > in the behind, it went so smooth I was still worried. > > Did the same last night. There is one MAJOR gotcha for Solaris that isn't in > the docs, but is on the wiki. > > Sys-Hostname-Long is majorly broken on Solaris. It assumes a gnu hostname > command and issues 'hostname --fqdn' to get the hostname, resorting to an > IP method if this returns an error. > > hostname on solaris however doesn't take options, and if you are root set's > the system hostname to whatever you pass it. Upshot: Run spamd 3.0.0 as root > on Solaris to suid to your users, and it changes your hostname to --fqdn ! > > So if you did a make test of S::H::L as a user other than root, all tests > pass and it looks like it works. Call it from a program running as root > -- and WHAM, odd things start happening since your hostname is now wrong. > IE -- syslog stops working. > > This was posted on the wiki and on the CPAN site, but evidently no one had > e-mailed the author of Sys-Hostname-Long! I mailed him about this last > night. There's *several* bugs open on rt.perl.org about it. Perhaps he isn't listed as the maintainer of the module, with that bug tracking system... > I highly suggest at LEAST adding a note to the INSTALL notes of SA 3.0.0 there's a bug in our bugzilla about it -- that may be a good plan. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBWwARQTcbUG5Y7woRAjHpAKDsNrXLqOVmdwKh+AtIFGnvVYCxWACgxv6Q gXnzZXfc6+fM9jngKX2LQZk= =hgkv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
