From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 0:38:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from new-smtp1.ihug.com.au (new-smtp1.ihug.com.au [203.109.250.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB44B37B404 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:38:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.173.134.88] (p88-tnt4.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.134.88]) by new-smtp1.ihug.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id TAA10947 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:38:35 +1100 X-Authentication-Warning: new-smtp1.ihug.com.au: Host p88-tnt4.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.134.88] claimed to be [203.173.134.88] X-Sender: john/jmv@mail.webtapestry.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020201002332.B35381-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:41:34 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Vender Subject: Re: perl 5.6.1 and FormMail 1.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 upgrad= e. Cheers...John 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. > >TIA > >Tim Kellers >CPE/NJIT > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message