On Tue, June 9, 2009 00:59, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 00:39 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: >> does there exists a perl-cleanup in you distro ? >> > There's not a general one. On the assumption (true for Fedora) that both > Perl and SA are distro supported packages, if I was tackling this I'd do > the following: > > - make safety copies of SA customisation. > - yum remove perl spamassassin > - updatedb > - use 'locate perl' to see if there are any other copies of perl - > there is in this case. At a guess it is a CPAN install. > - remove it using 'rm -rf' as it is unlikely to be an RPM package > - check that Perl is definitely gone. (updatedb; locate perl) > - get the latest distro versions: yum install perl spamassassin > - replace SA customisation if it got overwritten. > - check that the default PATH doesn't point to anything that was > removed. It is set up in /etc/profile plus extras from /etc/profile.d
yes, when no perl is installed you can yum install spamassassin as it was ment to from distros, if still problem with spamassassin 2>&1 -D --lint after this then report it to your distro as a dependice problem i remember perl problems from my old freebsd 4.9 :=) newer happended on gentoo here -- http://localhost/ 100% uptime and 100% mirrored :)
