Sys::Syslog with SA 3.0 and Perl 5.8.7?

[Dr Robert Young <rc...@aliconsultants.com>]

I have Perl 5.8.3 installed.  I am going to be installing SA 2.6, and 
then perform an upgrade to SA 3.0 as part of a test before attempting a 
"real" upgrade on an existing production system.

I noted in O'Reilly's Spamassassin book that Sys::Syslog is listed as 
being required. I also saw this on another www source regarding SA 
3.0.1 specifically.

So when using CPAN to get Sys::Syslog with Perl 5.8.3, it states that 
it requires Perl 5.8.7 as a depedancy.

Just checking to be sure that the later version of Perl is needed if 
one is intending to use SA 2.6 and/or 3.0 with sendmail? If Perl needs 
to be updated as well, then additional testing is going to be needed as 
Perl gets used in other places "besides" the SA tool. 

Re: Sys::Syslog with SA 3.0 and Perl 5.8.7?

[Kai Schaetzl <ma...@conactive.com>]

Dr Robert Young wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:04:57 -0400:

> So when using CPAN to get Sys::Syslog with Perl 5.8.3, it states that 
> it requires Perl 5.8.7 as a depedancy. 
>  
> Just checking to be sure that the later version of Perl is needed if 
> one is intending to use SA 2.6 and/or 3.0 with sendmail?

SA doesn't need it. It's the module which seems to need it. Looks like 
version 0.6 wants that Perl version because it's only available as part of 
the Perl core distribution. Try installing an earlier version directly 
from a tar.gz file. I wonder why it's not part of your Perl distribution. 
Are you sure it's not installed?

Kai

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