Perl error after upgrade to 3.2.3

[Jon Armitage-2]

Apologies if I am asking in the wrong place, since I can see that there are
several possible reasons.

We have just upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.2.3 on an elderly 386 box running Red
Hat 9. At the same time I used CPAN to upgrade any out-of-date perl modules.

Now, when SA starts, we get the following error:

Starting SpamAssassin daemon...
[23172] error: Can't locate Sys/Syslog/Win32.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl) at (eval 11) line 2.
[23172] error: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 11) line 2.

done.

The error comes up twice, but SA does in fact start, and appears to be
functioning normally. Does anyone know why it suddenly wants to load a Win32
module?

Jon

Jon Armitage
System Administrator, 365 Media Group

[Neil-27]

Hi;
   I've seen this as well. I did a cpan upgrade and upgraded all perl
mods on a BSD, but not SA which was at 3.2.3. I think that may be due to
an issue with Sys:Syslog v0.20

SA seems to be working fine, as you say.

[96054] error: Can't locate Sys/Syslog/Win32.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8) at (eval 14)
line 2.
[96054] error: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 14) line 2.


rgds
n


Jonathan Armitage wrote:

> Apologies if I am asking in the wrong place, since I can see that
> there are several possible reasons.
>
> We have just upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.2.3 on an elderly 386 box
> running Red Hat 9. At the same time I used CPAN to upgrade any
> out-of-date perl modules.
>
> Now, when SA starts, we get the following error:
>
> Starting SpamAssassin daemon...
> [23172] error: Can't locate Sys/Syslog/Win32.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl) at (eval 11) line 2.
> [23172] error: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 11) line 2.
>
> done.
>
> The error comes up twice, but SA does in fact start, and appears to be
> functioning normally. Does anyone know why it suddenly wants to load a
> Win32 module?
>
> Jon
>
> Jon Armitage
> System Administrator, 365 Media Group
>

[Rank1st]

It is definately Sys:Syslog causing the problem.  If you look in the actual spamd file, it gives some indication of this.  I found that if I specified my log file options in the spamassassin options files that the problem is resolved.  Add something like -s /var/log/spam.d to the existing options and the error clears.

bw - Rank1st

Neil-27 wrote:

Hi;
   I've seen this as well. I did a cpan upgrade and upgraded all perl
mods on a BSD, but not SA which was at 3.2.3. I think that may be due to
an issue with Sys:Syslog v0.20

SA seems to be working fine, as you say.

[96054] error: Can't locate Sys/Syslog/Win32.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8) at (eval 14)
line 2.
[96054] error: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 14) line 2.


rgds
n


Jonathan Armitage wrote:
> Apologies if I am asking in the wrong place, since I can see that
> there are several possible reasons.
>
> We have just upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.2.3 on an elderly 386 box
> running Red Hat 9. At the same time I used CPAN to upgrade any
> out-of-date perl modules.
>
> Now, when SA starts, we get the following error:
>
> Starting SpamAssassin daemon...
> [23172] error: Can't locate Sys/Syslog/Win32.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl) at (eval 11) line 2.
> [23172] error: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 11) line 2.
>
> done.
>
> The error comes up twice, but SA does in fact start, and appears to be
> functioning normally. Does anyone know why it suddenly wants to load a
> Win32 module?
>
> Jon
>
> Jon Armitage
> System Administrator, 365 Media Group
>