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Date:      21 Oct 2002 11:52:54 +0100
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Phil Homewood <pdh@snapgear.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Syslog.pm Cannot get host name of local machine
Message-ID:  <1035197574.1978.16.camel@linux>
In-Reply-To: <20021021104506.GA71836@dorfl.internal.moreton.com.au>
References:  <E183ZhI-0000E4-00@rip.psg.com> <1035196522.1771.12.camel@linux>  <20021021104506.GA71836@dorfl.internal.moreton.com.au>

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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:45, Phil Homewood wrote:
> Simon Dick wrote:
> > > Cannot get host name of local machine at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/Sys/Syslog.pm line 248
> > 
> > I got that too, I still can't see a reason why it's not working :(
> 
> I suspect you've found a bug in Sys::Hostname which I reported
> nearly three years (and several email addresses) ago, and which
> never got fixed.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/15662 contains the
> PR and a patch which might fix your problem. Another workaround
> (which really only works by accident) might be simply to set
> $ENV{'PATH'} explicitly in spamd.

That's actually the patch I ended up using, even though I have no idea
at all why it fixes it (I just used trial and error)

-- 
Simon


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