Steve, my /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
Do I only need to make the change in LANG,
so that LANG="POSIX"?
mark
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark R. Cervarich
> > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:09 PM
> > Subject: Spamassassin, Perl, newer RPMS & up2date
> >
> >
> > Greeting everyone,
> >
> > I've been using RedHat since 1996 and have recently made the jump to
> > version 8.0
> >
> > In the past, I would download .tar.gz files and install programs that
> > I was interested in "by hand", but want to see if I can use
> > https://rhn.redhat.com/ (the Red Hat Network) and up2date for 99% of
> > my programs...because I believe it will help me keep more up to date
> > with security concerns, etc.
> >
> > Anyways, I'm currently using spamassassin-2.31-16 which shipped with
> > RedHat 8.0. I'd like to "upgrade" that to a more recent version.
> > http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html tells me of some RPMS made
> > availble, but it looks like they are for RedHat 7.3.
> >
> > So what should I do?
> > How should I upgrade spamassassin without messing up the benefits of
> > rhn and up2date?
>
> I'm not aware of any magical way to keep up2date in sync when Redhat is
> lagging so far behind on certain applications. SA is currently at revision
> 2.43.
>
> I just deleted the Redhat SA RPM and then downloaded the latest SA RPM from
> the spamassassin.org site and have not looked back. Yes up2date is out of
> sync with regards to SA, but there are just way to many new features/fixes
> between SA-2.31 to 2.43 to justify keeping up2date in sync. At least for SA.
>
> >
> > 2nd question:
> > Same as the first, but with perl instead.
> > I've got perl-5.8.0-55 installed (came with RedHat 8.0), but it seems
> > to output wierd warnings about unicode, etc.
>
> This is a well known problem with SA/Perl/RH-8.0. Short answer: edit
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n and change the LANG statement to LANG=POSIX. Works for
> me! I'm running RH-8.0, perl-5.8.0-55 and SA-2.43 (the rpm from the sa
> website) without any problems at all.
>
> Steve Cowles
>
>
>
>
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Mark R. Cervarich
Shelfspace.com
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