Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:36:29 +0000 From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> To: John Vender <john@jmv.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 5.6.1 and FormMail 1.6 Message-ID: <20020201133629.C440@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <l03102800b880039901c4@[203.173.134.88]>; from john@jmv.com.au on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:41:34PM %2B1100 References: <20020201002332.B35381-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> <l03102800b880039901c4@[203.173.134.88]>
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:41:34PM +1100, John Vender said: > Tim Kellers wrote: > > >I did an upgrade to Perl 5.6.1 (from ports) last week and, much to my > >surprise, I found out today that my FormMail was broken --no error > >message, no bounce just no mail delivered. I "use.perl system"'d back to > >5.005 and everything worked again. I also --after I got 5.005 working > >again, installed the latest FormMail (v 1.9) and things continued to work. > > > >The only variable that I'm aware of is that I installed the Webmin 0.92 > >"jabber" module and had to swim through some really cryptic perl errors in > >order to get the module to work --Webmin, the day after, released a Jabber > >module that worked without producing those errors, so it is possible that > >I hosed my Perl while trying to "fix" the errant Jabber WebMin module. > > > >I haven't, yet, reinstalled Perl 5.6.1 --I figured it was best to ask the > >question here before I break my server, yet again. > > > I've seen this happen when perl was upgraded on a couple of servers I have > some web sites on (happened to be redhat so I don't think bsd is part of > the issue), formmail stopped sending mails but otherwise didn't come up with > any complaints when run. To solve it I updated formmail but I never got > an answer to what causes the problem when earlier versions are run with > newer perl. The ISP who owns the servers told me to upgrade formmail when > they noticed the old versions stopped working when they did the perl upgrade. Off the top of my head, could it be that the open() syntax changed ? Ceri -- Your local RFC Nazi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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