Those are not optional modules. You can either install them from CPAN or from yum (depending on the repo you use)
As a rule if it says REQUIRED, it probably is :-) Apologies if this is teaching you to suck eggs: In CPAN type: install Digest::SHA Or in yum, do yum list available and look in the Perl modules for the correct ones then do: yum install Perl-Digest-SHA Hope that helps Nigel On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:13:56 -0700 (PDT), Gnanam <gna...@zoniac.com> wrote: > >Hi, > >I'm trying to install SpamAssassin version 3.3.1 on CentOS release 5.2 >(Final). > >During installation, it reported the following REQUIRED & optional module >missing: > >REQUIRED module missing: Digest::SHA >REQUIRED module missing: HTML::Parser >REQUIRED module missing: Net::DNS >REQUIRED module missing: Archive::Tar >REQUIRED module missing: IO::Zlib >optional module missing: Digest::SHA >optional module missing: Mail::SPF >optional module missing: IP::Country >optional module missing: Razor2 >optional module missing: Net::Ident >optional module missing: IO::Socket::INET6 >optional module missing: IO::Socket::SSL >optional module missing: Compress::Zlib >optional module missing: Mail::DKIM >optional module missing: DBI >optional module missing: LWP::UserAgent >optional module missing: HTTP::Date >optional module missing: Encode::Detect > >I then installed all REQUIRED modules along with it's dependencies. But, >I've not installed the optional modules. > >My question is, after installation, spamassassin service file is not >available in the location /etc/init.d/spamassassin. Because of this >'service spamassassin start' says "spamassassin: unrecognized service". >What could be the reason for spamassassin service file missing after >installation? Because this service file is not automatically installed as >part of installation, I've little doubt/fear/confusion whether it would >create any other implications during course of usage. > >NOTE: >1. I'm installing as 'root' user here. >2. Also, I've installed this on RHEL4 and RHEL5, but I don't find this issue >(missing spamassassin service file). >3. I also tried to copy the 'spamassassin' service file from one of my RHEL5 >to this CentOS. It is working fine. > >Regards, >Gnanam
