On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Joe Flowers wrote: > I have a Red Hat Linux 9 machine that has Perl 5.8 installed on it, and Perl > 5.8 on this machine looks deeply embedded to the core of the OS, based on > the ton of dependencies when I do "rpm -e perl". I need to run SpamAssassin > on this machine, but the SpamAssassin docs highly recommends using Perl 5.6 > and NOT Perl 5.8. > > *****Is there anyway I can install Perl 5.6.1 for use by SpamAssassin only, > so I can leave Perl 5.8 for the OS and everything else?***** > > I'm afraid trying to uninstall Perl 5.8 on this machine, besides having a > hundred depending packages to uninstall first, and then to re-install after > back revving Perl, will leave the OS in an unstable state. > > Any ideas?
Yes, use 5.8. :-) I have amavis-new, spamassassin and postfix running on a Red Hat 8.0 machine with perl-5.8.0-55. It has been running 24/7 for a month or so with no problems. Just make sure the LANG variable is NOT set to anything.utf8. That is guaranteed to make perl blow chunks. HTH, -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] My current SpamTrap -------> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
