Re: Perl, majordomo, Redhat... (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:52:11 -0700
From: Sandy Whitesel <address@hidden>
To: Mike Wright <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Perl, majordomo, Redhat...

Redhat released a patch rpm for perl back on feb2 that fixes these
problems.  FYI, we don't run majordomo on any redhat machine, so this was
never an issue for us.

-sandy

Mike Wright wrote:

> FYI,
>
> Came accross this piece of info. It came about from some people having
> problems with perl on Redhat 5.2. The reply is related to majordomo,
> which you may find interesting.
>
> Mike.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Segmentation fault - more info
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:01:12 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jeffrey Goldberg <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Organization: Cranfield University Computer Centre
> To: address@hidden
>
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> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Martin Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
> >
> > | Chances are you've got a buggy version of perl.  (Such as the one
> > | distributed with RedHat Linux 5.2 and RedHat Linux 5.0).
> >
> > Ooh - got any more info on this ?  Anything that would hit people
> > who've applied the current Perl patch, e.g. perl-5.004m7-1.i386.rpm
> > for RedHat 5.2 ?
> >
> > Martin
>
> All I know is that people on the majordomo-users mailing regularly say
> unpleasent things about RedHat for including a perl version with an
> appearently known bug in some of the regex stuff.  Here is an excerpt
> from
> the Majordomo FAQ,
>
>     http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html
>
>  Majordomo is written in Perl. It will work with Perl 4.036 or Perl
>  5.002 or greater. It will not work with Perl 5.001!!!. It is
>  recommended that you use the latest release of Perl that you can
>  get. You can find it at http://www.perl.com/perl/. You must upgrade
>  to version 1.94.3 in order for it to work with Perl 5.004, due to
>  changes in regular expressions.  Unfortunately, Majordomo does NOT
>  work with Perl 5.005_01, due to a bug in Perl with respect to regular
>  expressions. Use Perl 5.005_02 (or greater). While Majordomo is still
>  compatible with Perl 4.036, future versions will likely be Perl 5
>  only.
>
>  RedHat 5.2 is unfortunately shipping a prerelease version of Perl
>  ("5.004m4") with some of their Linux distributions. This version is
>  buggy and won't work with Majordomo (you will get "Unknown mailer
>  error 9" errors). Download an install the 5.004 or 5.005 RPM instead,
>  or download and updated RPM from updates.redhat.com. Many people have
>  been having problems with Majordomo on DEC OSF/1 AXP
>  systems. Apparently Perl on the Alphas is not as stable as compared
>  to other platforms, and Majordomo tickles bugs in that port of Perl.
>  If you are having problems, please make sure you are running the very
>  latest version of Perl (version 5.002 is known to work). There
>  haven't been recent reports in this area, so it's assumed that later
>  versions also work.
>
> Because I am in the habit of fetching perl source for cpan and
> rebuiling perl every time I set up a RedHat system, I had the
> following bit of fun last week when setting up a machine for library
> here for running ROADS.  I installed RedHat 5.2 in the usual way,
> installed ssh1 and xntp, and then rebuilt perl.  Only then did I read
> the ROADS installation page and discovered that by rebuilding perl
> from source, I no longer had a set-up which would work with the roads
> rpm.  Still, the manual set-up was pretty easy.
>
> - -j
>
> - --
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