On Friday 07 November 2003 22:34, David B Funk wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Maarten J H van den Berg wrote: > > I eventually found the reason for this behaviour after I noticed that > > root could start it okay, but the unpriv user spamd couldn't...: > > > > machine:~ # ls -la /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin > > drwx------ 2 root root 942 Nov 7 11:45 . > > Try setting your "umask" to 022 before doing any installs. ;)
Ha ha. ;-) That is not it; all of the dependancies CPAN.pm installed for SA worked fine and besides, my umask is already at 022. No, it still puzzles me... > Other good rule of thumb, always test out a new installation as the > user who will ultimatly run the stuff. Good way to catch permissions & > path problems. (I ran into the exact same problem when I did my first SA > upgrade. ;) OK. Will do. Thanks. > [snip..] > > > I'll try to find out which step exactly triggers this. In the meantime, > > I get bitten by some very lame dependancies which invariably lead to > > CPAN.pm attempting to install perl 5.8 (I have 5.6). I don't understand > > this. In the first place it doesn't give me any choice to skip the > > install of perl 5.8 as it does with all other packages, secondly the > > Spamassassin faq says perl 5.8 is to be avoided, right ? > > In any case, no matter what, I'll not allow such a perl upgrade on a > > production system cause I can not afford to break things. > > IIRC, this was due to a bug in one of the versions of CPAN. > Try updating your CPAN I already doubted this, so thanks a lot for that info. However, I'm kinda stuck since install Bundle::CPAN _also_ eventually tries to upgrade perl. ;-| I'll look into updating it manually but that is a LOT of work... :-(( Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
